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Libreoffice updates over whole support time (Precise Pangolin)

Asked by marco dahms

How will the Ubuntu team provide Updates for Libreoffice over the whole support time for Ubuntu 12.04? After Libreoffice's EOL Precise Pangolin will get a few years of support.

Will there be backports of 3.6 or a native Upgrade like firefox in Ubuntu which gets an upgrade for each new version?

Or will Libreoffice stay at version 3.5 and only get security updates?

For Quantal the thing isn't such a problem due to it's shorter support time but Precise get 5 years of support which is incredible long!

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

SRU specs.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

That's why it's called LTS (long term support). Feel free to upgrade earlier.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Libreoffice will jump up to 3.whatever as needed, the version number doesn't have to stay the same....

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primefalcon (primefalcon) said : 		#3

what you could do is add a libreoffice ppa such as:
https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa

this way you can keep libreoffice up to date even if you don't upgrade ubuntu, however take note that this has not been tested extensively by Canonical like things in the main repo's have been

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

Possibly the first PP point release may get LibO 3.6.0 (Aug. 9th).
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseInterlock

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