jubuntus
April 5th, 2005, 12:26 AM
Hi Ubuntu users and developers.
From reading some threads, if sources.list is left at default, I understand that syntaptic does not upgrade packages, but should update packages, particularly security fixes. Am I mistaken?
Anyway, I installed hoary-rc recently. I have noticed that thunderbird has not been updated to 1.02 from 1.0 and as far as I know this was a security release. There are also a few other packages which have not been updated either. aibword for example (2.2.2 installed, most recent is 2.2.6) and a few others. Now I realise that this is a release candidate, but I recall noticing this also in warty, a stable release.
So, my question is, how do you contact the package maintainers to give them a gentle nudge/reminder/notification that a newer package has been released with potential critical bug fixes/security fixes??? I am sure the developers would actually appreciate the info as they could not possibly keep up with all the updates out there.
Thanks in advance...
From reading some threads, if sources.list is left at default, I understand that syntaptic does not upgrade packages, but should update packages, particularly security fixes. Am I mistaken?
Anyway, I installed hoary-rc recently. I have noticed that thunderbird has not been updated to 1.02 from 1.0 and as far as I know this was a security release. There are also a few other packages which have not been updated either. aibword for example (2.2.2 installed, most recent is 2.2.6) and a few others. Now I realise that this is a release candidate, but I recall noticing this also in warty, a stable release.
So, my question is, how do you contact the package maintainers to give them a gentle nudge/reminder/notification that a newer package has been released with potential critical bug fixes/security fixes??? I am sure the developers would actually appreciate the info as they could not possibly keep up with all the updates out there.
Thanks in advance...