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libcap package is 22 versions behind HEAD

Asked by Andrew G. Morgan

I was wondering how I can help get the libcap package updated to something more recent? I've been helping other distributions, but Ubuntu is the most behind at this point.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Manfred Hampl suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Andrew G. Morgan (morganlibcap) said : 		#2

Is there some schedule for the expected time frame for the next major release of Ubuntu? On https://repology.org/project/libcap/history I see this with respect to libcap-2.63 (2.66 is current):

2022-04-03 08:14 Project removed from Ubuntu 22.04 Proposed
2022-03-24 10:56 Project added to Ubuntu 22.04 Proposed

Is this indicative of some evaluation process? Is there a way to understand if the removal represents an unresolved problem I can help with?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

Ubuntu releases are published twice a year, see https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

The next one (Ubuntu 22.10 kinetic kudu is due on October 20, 2022.
It will most probably contain libcap2 version 1:2.44-1build3

Further remarks:
I do not know anything about that repology page. Its heading tells something about "experimental feature" and "may contain artifacts produced by repology". I do not trust it.
The real history of the Ubuntu package versions can be seen on launchpad, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcap2/+publishinghistory

Ubuntu is copying packages from Debian (to avoid double packaging work), and also Debian is lagging behind with its libcap2 package, see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libcap2

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