old package on Ubuntu

Anthony Thyssen

2011-07-25 07:23:22 UTC

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:36:52 -0400
magick-users-***@imagemagick.org wrote:
| Anyone have any idea why the IM package on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) is so
| old <http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/imagemagick> - 6.5.7-8? I'm going to
| look into updating
| it<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete#Updating_an_Ubuntu_Package>,
| but was just wondering if there was a reason not to. Thanks!
|

Because no one on IM core programming team knows how to create a debian
package!

Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <***@griffith.edu.au>
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