On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 21:16 +0000, James Freer wrote:
It does - i thought ubuntu would be a bit more ahead than debian... spent a couple of hours looking through ubuntu repositories this afternoon. I didn't expect debian to have it - they are supposed to be slower at upgrades but more stable i understood. It just happens i'm interested in trying this 1.10.1 version out. I might be on the verge of switching to debian or suse!
Personally for the sake of just one app I would do as Brett suggested and just grab the deb from the link he provided and try and install it (with my instructions for a dry run first if you are that worried)
Also the clue as to why Debian is further ahead is in the name of the repository the 1.10 version comes from. Ubuntu won't generally increment version numbers of things between releases as the aim is for the environment to remain reasonably static until you intentionally upgrade the distro. 1.10 was too late for Gutsy as by that point Gutsy was frozen for release testing.
Debian on the other hand has a completely different release structure, which means that often you can pick up a more recent package in Debian unstable.