Thank you for your bug report (although a slightly less antagonistic tone will generally get better results!).
However, this is not a bug but a deliberate design choice in the Ubuntu release process (see «https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeBasedReleases» for some details). Generally, chasing version numbers is not very useful (is there anything new in the new version that you actually need?). What is really important is the stability (does it work) and features (does it do what you want it to) of the software, and simply packaging the very latest release of everything is generally not a good compromise. For the exceptions we have a couple of processes to update a released version: 1) The security repository «https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityUpdateProcedures», to fix security bugs in packages 2) SRUs «https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates?action=show&redirect=SRU» to fix significant non-security related bugs in existing packages 3) Backports «https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports», to bring packages with significant new functionality from the development version into a release. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Invalid -- Old outdated packages! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/161968 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
