XPRA in Ubuntu Repository is terribly out-of-date

[brian mullan]

I had an exchange with the XPRA developers about Ubuntu Repository XPRA being so out of date.

Their response was to forward me this URL:

https://www.xpra.org/trac/wiki/Packaging/DistributionPackages

The latest release of XPRA is v 2.2

Ubuntu's repository only has v 0.17.6 ... and that is in the 18.04 repositories...??

Is there any chance of getting Ubuntu's XPRA at least up to the same 2.0 release as ARCH linux's (see above URL again).

Thanks
Brian

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I see that Debian has packaged xpra 2.1.3+dfsg-1 in their experimental suite (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xpra). After some period of experimentation, this should move to the unstable repo where it will be automatically synced to Ubuntu, but I don't know the timeframe for this.

[brian mullan (bmullan)]

Thanks... I guess that means its a waiting game but hopefully it won't be long.

Brian

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Looks like someone synced this recently, so xpra 2.1.3+dfsg-1 will be part of Ubuntu 18.04. (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpra)