Release libabsl-dev and libabsl20200225 into focal?

Asked by Tyler Weaver

As far as I can tell all the dependencies of these two packages are already released into focal and these packages are released for groovy. I would really like to use them in focal. Is there some way I could help these packages be released into focal?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
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Manfred Hampl suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
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For a workaround there are PPAs, see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=abseil
(standard disclaimer for PPAs applies of course)

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Tyler Weaver (tylerjw-a) said :
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Thank you for the response. The only reason I thought it might be possible is this package was never released into focal so this is not an upgrade of the version.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
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Everything what is true for version upgrades also applies to software that has not been published for a certain Ubuntu release.
You can try creating a request to backport the version from impish to focal, but I am not optimistic that this would quickly be done.

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