Please update Scribus to 1.4.6

[COLABORATI]

Hey, Scribus 1.4.6 has some very important improvements and there is no simple way installing it on e.g. Ubuntu Trusty.
Please update this package so we can use 1.4.6 while still using the LTS release of Ubuntu.
There should be no dependency problems with this release as 1.4.6 should run anywhere where 1.4.2 was runnig.

We are trying to use Ubuntu as a pro multimedia workstation - too old packages for Scribus are a deal breaker atm, please help us to put Ubuntu into a better position for multimedia production. We need updated packages for this to happen!

Thanks for your attention!

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

This is not going to happen. The release model of ubuntu doesn't really
allow updating applications like this. FYI the current development
release, 16.04 xenial, already has scribus 1.4.6.

Anyway, I'll make sure there is 1.4.6 in the scribus PPA as soon as I
manage to get it done (which will take a some more week, due to being busy
in real life).

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:35 PM COLABORATI <email address hidden> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Hey, Scribus 1.4.6 has some very important improvements and there is no
> simple way installing it on e.g. Ubuntu Trusty.
> Please update this package so we can use 1.4.6 while still using the LTS
> release of Ubuntu.
> There should be no dependency problems with this release as 1.4.6 should
> run anywhere where 1.4.2 was runnig.
>
> We are trying to use Ubuntu as a pro multimedia workstation - too old
> packages for Scribus are a deal breaker atm, please help us to put
> Ubuntu into a better position for multimedia production. We need updated
> packages for this to happen!
>
> Thanks for your attention!
>
> ** Affects: scribus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: dtp multimedia pro update
>
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> Title:
> Please update Scribus to 1.4.6
>
> Status in scribus package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Hey, Scribus 1.4.6 has some very important improvements and there is no
> simple way installing it on e.g. Ubuntu Trusty.
> Please update this package so we can use 1.4.6 while still using the LTS
> release of Ubuntu.
> There should be no dependency problems with this release as 1.4.6 should
> run anywhere where 1.4.2 was runnig.
>
> We are trying to use Ubuntu as a pro multimedia workstation - too old
> packages for Scribus are a deal breaker atm, please help us to put
> Ubuntu into a better position for multimedia production. We need
> updated packages for this to happen!
>
> Thanks for your attention!
>
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> Launchpad-Bug-Tags: dtp multimedia pro update
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[COLABORATI (collaborista)]

Anything that enables us to use Scribus 1.4.6 is very welcome, thanks!
16.04 is on our watchlist, but for a classroom situation that starts before 2016-04 we would like to stay on 14.04 to avoid massive update flooding...
Thanks again for making it possible!
Have a nice day!

[COLABORATI (collaborista)]

Hi, please update Scribus. Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

just uploaded to the scribus PPA.
Please just use that.

add-apt-repository ppa:scribus/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

should just work.

[COLABORATI (collaborista)]

Finally! Thank you very much. How is the situation with xenial?
Please keep this updated, thanks again!!!

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

xenial has 1.4.6 already in the official ubuntu archive., and it'll stick to that version for all of its lifetime.

I'll do anything that's possible to keep the PPA up-to-date with the next scribus releases, though.