On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:10 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> I’m not sure what kind of work this would be on the devs, but Ubuntu has a > special procedure for LibreOffice and Firefox (if not other apps, perhaps > Thunderbird and Chrome/Chromium as well) where new versions are available > in the LTS repos either as available or by point-release. > > This may be an option for GnuCash. > > I’m not sure what’s involved, or if the team just has to ask Canonical to > give it the same special treatment. > > But Canonical might prefer to push for an up-to-date Snap instead. > > Regards, > Adrien > > What you're describing is a special Ubuntu maintainer -- essentially someone who has volunteered (and in some cases paid?) to keep particular packages up-to-date. They have identified a few "mission critical" packages such as web browsers and LibreOffice as deserving special treatment. Most packages, like GnuCash, get copied in from Debian and go into the "Universe" repository. The folks in charge of those are called "Masters of the Universe" or MOTU. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
