Update to 1.5.11

[Light Templar]

There is version 1.5.11 out. Could you please update the repository? At least for Ubuntu 16.04

[Felix Natter (fnatter)]

hello Light Templar,

freeplane 1.5.11 is already packaged and will be uploaded to Debian
unstable soon, but due to a change in binary packages, it might need to
pass the NEW queue, which might take some time.

Regarding Ubuntu 16.04: AFAIK there are no automatic syncs for 16.04 any more,
so it probably won't happen. Backporting 1.5 is not an easy task,
because dependencies and the build system have changed.

You can, however, download the binary distribution from sourceforge, extract
it and run ./freeplane.sh. Of course you can create a shortcut for your
favorite desktop environment.

If you need mime type associations, then keep the 1.3 package, and
edit /usr/share/applications/freeplane.desktop and change the Exec=...
line to point to the extracted freeplane.sh (absolute path).

Cheers and Best Regards,
Felix

[Light Templar (lighttemplar)]

Hello Felix,
Ok, I see. I use now a binary package from SourceForge (there is already 1.15.12 by the way).
I just hoped to have a properly updated from repository application. I'm new to a Linux world and still not used to use a binary distributions from Authors' sites. It seems somehow awkward to me when we have all these repositories. But, if you mean, it's ok... :)

[Felix Natter (fnatter)]

hello Light Templar,

the difficulty in publishing packages is that every dependency (such as groovy and 20 others for
freeplane) must be packaged separately from source.

And Ubuntu 16.04 has different dependencies which means the package and/or the depenencies
must be adapted. Adapting dependencies is hard, because there are other reverse-dependencies.

I'll see if I can so something, but it won't be easy.

Cheers and Best Regards,
Felix

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Piotrvv (piotrvv)]

Hello,

are you planning to create a snap anytime soon? Ubuntu currently lacks a proper mind mapping software as freemind is also at 0.9 now...

best
Peter

[Felix Natter (fnatter)]

hello Piotrw,

good idea, I'll look into creating a snap for 16.04. But since I'm busy in my dayjob
and need to learn about snap, this might take some time.

Meanwhile you can use the 1.5.x binary distribution, see above.

Cheers and Best Regards,
Felix

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

yakkety is updated.