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Can we help out with a new version of Nim?

Asked by gunnar.ahlberg

The nim version is out of date https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/nim
It took a while to understand that the version 1.0.6 was installed, and, nimx for example requires a newer version.
Can we help out to publish a newer version of nim?

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#1

https://nim-lang.org/install.html
Scroll down the page.
Ubuntu is derived from Debian.
When Debian changes their package then Ubuntu will.
https://wiki.debian.org/BugReport
If you file a bug report with Debian
then they may change to a newer package.
Thus Ubuntu will follow for the next newer
version of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is Not a "Rolling Release"

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

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 (last edit ): 		#3

Debian recently has packaged version 1.6.6 and that version (or a newer one) will also be provided in the future Ubuntu release 22.10.
For older Ubuntu releases: see the FAQ linked above.
If the improvements in the new version are important, then a SRU or backport can be requested.

And as a possible additional solution: everybody can create a PPA and provide updated versions.

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Best Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#4

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/nim
This is the latest package for Debian.

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gunnar.ahlberg (gunnar) said : 		#5

Thank you for the great and informative messages. I understand the need to not do rolling release.
I now understand that it will take some time to get to nim 1.6 as a packaged distribution, e.g. "nim: incompatible with OpenSSL 3.0" https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1006989

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gunnar.ahlberg (gunnar) said : 		#6

Thanks Bernard Stafford, that solved my question.