Re: old package on Ubuntu

Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:23:22 +1000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.image-magick.user
Message-ID	<20110725172322.3c9c5100@wraith>

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:36:52 -0400
[email protected] 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!



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