emelfm2 version in ubuntu is ancient

[Shock]

The version of emelfm2 in the repos is 0.4.1, from 2008. The current version is 0.8.0. Please update.

[David Futcher (bobbo)]

It seems like emelfm2 has been dropped in Debian (a search of packages.d.o shows only emelfm2-svg-icons, which is a different source package), which explains why we're shipping a 3 year old version of the app. We already maintain this independently in Ubuntu so it shouldn't be too difficult to update the package.

[David Futcher (bobbo)]

We're well past Feature Freeze for Pangolin, so this should be looked at for P+1 if we want to keep maintaining it here.

[Ralf Meyer (ranf)]

AFAIK it never was in Debian.
See:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/95675
where I linked to the ITP bug:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433530

[David Futcher (bobbo)]

In that case I'll update this at the start of the next cycle.

[Liviu Andronic (landronimirc)]

For info, an up-to-date PPA is available. [1]

[1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/emelfm2

[Shock (mmiron)]

Can I do something to facilitate this?

[Liviu Andronic (landronimirc)]

You can easily install emelFM2 from my unofficial PPA mentioned in Comment 5. Does this not work for you?

[Liviu Andronic (landronimirc)]

For info, a PPA containing daily builds of latest SVN trunk is also available.

https://code.launchpad.net/~emelfm2/+archive/daily