On 01 Jan 21:09, James Freer wrote:
Yes as 1.8.1 - but 1.10.1 was a big improvement having looked at their website. Ubuntu seem to be behind on this particular app. It just happens that i'm particularly keen to try it out - 1.8.1 is poor. I'm surprised that debian have it as it is supposed to be slow at producing upgrades. I'll load debian on my test pc and give it a try.
Do I take it that you are not aware of the ubuntu release process? Basically it takes a frozen version of Debian Testing (which is Debian Unstable with a 10 day bug-free lag), then the core parts of Ubuntu are upgraded to whatever version they want to be. But anything that's in the universe/multiverse, IIRC, is mostly not entirely supported and is best effort... Looking around, it appears also that 1.10.0 is available in Hardy, so it *might* be worth trying that package:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vym/vym_1.10.0-1ubuntu1_i38...
Hardy is basically tracking debian unstable at the moment. The reason that it's a slightly different package name is that the MotU change the Maintainer field so that it is the ubuntu MotU group instead.
The *reason* people think that debian is "slow at producing upgrades" is because you're making the assumption that there is only the "stable" release - the stable release is becoming more frequent, but it's still "when it's ready", however, you'll find that most debian developers are running either testing or unstable, with unstable being quite amazingly up to date on some software, but it has less testing at that point. There's also an experimental repository - but that's usually for large changes that you only want people to test that are ready for everything to break.
Ubuntu and Debian share a package format, so you should (quite easily) be able to install Debian packages on a Ubuntu system and vice-versa, using dpkg -i <filename.deb>, hence suggesting just installing the .deb file earlier - much quicker than installing debian ;)
Thanks,