[jaunty]: wish: consider backporting more recent version of calibre; current version is rather out of date

[N7DR]

Binary package hint: calibre

The calibre package for jaunty installs version 0.4.143, but the current version at http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/download_linux is 0.6.3, which has a considerable number of changes from the jaunty version.

0.6.3 is in karmic.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

I've done un unofficial backport in my ppa (I personally use it), so you can install it from there (https://launchpad.net/~fabricesp/+archive/ppa).
Anyway, I've added the backport team to the bug report

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

installed and working in Jaunty

[Fionn (fbe)]

This bug is still valid because the update hasnt made it into the backports repository for months, despite the ppa availablility. Why is this so?

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

This bug report has 2 'packages' linked to it:
- a 'calibre (Ubuntu)' one for Latest development version of Ubuntu (Karmic actually)
- a 'Jaunty Jackalope Backports' one for backporting it to Jaunty

I will reinvalidate the Calibre (Ubuntu) one, as karmic as version 0.6.3.

About the backport, it's a matter of finding a sponsor willing to deal with the package. That's why I'm using my ppa as a unofficial backport repository.

Be patient :-)

Cheers,
Fabrice

[James Westby (james-w)]

 * Trying to backport calibre...
I: Extracting calibre_0.6.13+dfsg-0ubuntu3.dsc ... done.
I: Building backport of calibre as 0.6.13+dfsg-0ubuntu3~jaunty1 ... done.