Also, it's not heavily staffed and so I'm not sure how frequently packages actually get updates.įurther, the SRU team has recently updated polices a bit which hopefully will make it a bit more straightforward to get bugfix-only package updates in. It's not enabled by default so users have to opt-in to it, which is done to eliminate the surprise of having your software change out from under you. Firefox for instance.Īlso, there is a ubuntu-backports repository users can opt into which updates software packages that won't cause problems like those listed above. created for the old versionĪll that said, be aware that there are cases where Ubuntu does do full updates of software versions in the repository. may break user scripts, templates, tools, etc.may break other packages that depend on this one.may require newer dependencies which could break other apps if they were changed in the repository.might annoy users who have gotten used to the features in the old version.makes technical support more challenging.would need updated documentation (and translations).would need updated translations for its UI. ![]()
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