ancient LibreOffice

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/10/13 16:04, Udvarias Ur wrote:
> I just got an update from 1:3.5.4-0Ubuntu1.1 to 1:3.5.7-0Ubuntu4. 
> (What happened to everything in between?)
>
> The released version on the LibreOffice WEB site is 4.1.2.
>
> According to Wikipedia® (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice):
>
>     Version 3.5 was released on 14 February 2012.
>
>     Version 3.6 was released on 8 August 2012.
>
>         With more import and export features, colour scales and data
>         bars in calc.
>
>     Version 4.0 was released on 7 February 2013.
>
>     Version 4.1 was released on 25 July
>     2013.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#cite_note-ghacks-76>
>
>         With more than 1,000 bug fixes and improvements, first large
>         UI change since forked from OpenOffice.org, new sidebar
>         feature, able to handle older Mac formats.
>
>     Version 4.2 is scheduled to be released in February 2014.
>
> Why is Ubuntu still upgrading a version of LibreOffice that is almost 
> 2 years old? Especially when there is a newest version contains so 
> many bug fixes, as well as many improvements!
>
> I've downloaded the 4.1.2 tarballs. They merely contain deb files. If 
> Canonical doesn't get off their duff soon I'm just going to remove the 
> version they upgraded and install the version I downloaded from the 
> LibreOffice WEB site!

Ooooow, now THAT'S tellin' 'em!

You're actually going to use your initiative and install something 
yourself. Wow!

I can see Canonical shaking uncontrollably in their boots - and it ain't 
a pretty sight, I tell ya!

BC

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