Shahrukh Merchant wrote: > Mmm, OK. If I see the version column on the left at the *Debian* version > tracker link http://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gddrescue indeed the current > STABLE seems to be 1.23 and the previous stable 1.21 (and there is a "To Do" > list that notes that 1.25 is available as you state).
Note that those labels of unstable, testing, stable, oldstable, refer to the *Debian release suites* for the entire OS distribution and not to the package upstream. > And the link that Timothy provided > https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/gddrescue shows that at least the Ubuntu > 18.04LTS distribution has 1.22, unfortunately the one with the bug. But > indeed that same page (clicking on "disco" and "eoan" respectively) shows > that 19.04 and the current 19.10 (and I guess the upcoming 20.04LTS?) did in > fact update to 1.23. I think the information here might be useful to you as a Mint user, which is downstream of Ubuntu. There is extensive description of the package release lifecycle. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates Bob
