Comment 9 for bug 302149

Andrey,

I must support what Iain said here, your comment is not constructive: there is nothing wrong (per se) with the Ubuntu distro. Ubuntu is more like Debian Stable than Debian Testing, There is a freeze point of packages for each release (6 monthly for Ubuntu, every 18--36 months for Debian Stable :-) Debian Testing, MacPorts, Fink, etc. are rolling update systems. If 6.10 were not in those I would be very worried.

So the problem here was that 6.10 did not get into Debian Testing (or at least Debian Unstable) for far too long. Once the package is in Debian Testing, it immediately gets included into the next Ubuntu. So as Iain says, 6.10 missed Jaunty but will make Karmic. Irritating, but natural for a time-structured distro such as Ubuntu.

Your point about Eclipse and NetBeans should really be aimed elsewhere, but again if there is a problem with versions, then the core issue is getting updated packages into Debian Testing. Actually I never use packages for Eclipse (or NetBeans) because of the stupid way it cannot handle per user plugins -- for example cf. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/5438 which is an Eclipse problem that they clearly don't care about. Actually I still prefer Emacs over Eclipse and NetBeans, but that is a debate for a different place.