update to argyll 1.6.2

[Pascal de Bruijn]

Currently saucy would ship with argyll 1.4.0 with is painfully outdated.

Debian testing offers argyll 1.5.1, which would be very nice to see in saucy...

On a sidenote, I have a simpler package of argyll 1.6.0 here:
https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/argyll-testing

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ansgar Bohmann (ansgar-bohmann)]

Meanwhile Argyll 1.6.2 has been released. The version in the repositories is indeed incredibly outdated.

[Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn)]

Indeed, though I've already updated my PPA.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Another reason why we should update at least to argyll 1.5.x is to get ColorHug supported by Trusty. Otherwise software such as dispcal(GUI) won't recognize it.

(on a side note, Pascal: thanks for the ppa)

[Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn)]

That is certainly not the only thing, since 1.4.0 a lot has been improved:

http://argyllcms.com/doc/ChangesSummary.html

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I see that Ubuntu Wily contains 1.7.0+repack-2, which from what I can see is the latest release of argyll. Therefore I believe this issue can be closed as Fix Released. (Also, regarding comment #4, argyll 1.5.1-5ubuntu1 is available in Ubuntu 14.04.)

Newer versions of packages are usually not added to the archive for already released Ubuntu versions unless it fixes a critical issue. If you would like a newer version of argyll in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "Requesting a Backport" at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports#Requesting_a_Backport