Latest version of Gnumeric in repository request

[artsci2]

Where do I make a request to get the latest version of Gnumeric put in the repository.

BTW the reason I want Gnumeric is that it starts up and runs my spreadsheets much faster than the heavyweight OpenOffice spreadsheet.

The speed difference is especially large with big matrix math functions.

Alternately:
Is there an easy way to upgrade by direct download tarbal or whatever?

I've never compiled/recompiled etc....

[jbrefort]

All requests should go to launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnumeric

The other way is to compile from sources, but it is not hat easy if you never did that. You'll need to install a lot of packages. Unless you can use the debian packages (from sid) which are up-to-date.

[newb85]

What would acquiring these up-to-date debian packages from sid entail?

Would installation from the debian packages be straight-forward?

[Sef]

I would check the PPAs to see if there is one. It is much easier to download them than compiling.