[Jaunty] awesome version is REALLY deprecated

[Cédric Jeanneret deactivated]

Binary package hint: awesome

Hello,

Is it possible to have an up-to-date version for awesome ? as 2.3 is... well... it's unusable, and deprecated.
Now they have 3.2, and this one is really stable...
As source-compilation isn't really how ubuntu intends to install package, I think it can be a good idea to put awesome-3.2 in APT...

Regards,

C.

[Bruno Vernay (brunovernay)]

This guy seems to have done some work already: http://www.fingel.com/2009/04/awesome-window-manager-32-debs-for-ubuntu/

By the way it is version 3.3 now ...

[zobi8225 (thomas-luquet)]

anybody have tested this package https://launchpad.net/~klaus-vormweg/+archive/ppa/+build/1084460 ?

[Bruno Vernay (brunovernay)]

I will try. Meanwhile would it be possible to backport the existing Karmic package ?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/x11/awesome

It is not very secure to use Personal Package Archive, isn't it ?

[Bruno Vernay (brunovernay)]

It is working.

[Andrew Sullivan Cant (acant)]

As per the previous comment this seems to work.
It looks like Karmic has awesome 3.3.4 as the time of this comment.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/x11/awesome

So marking this as Fix Released.