Ubuntu still shows 1.2

[Yannick Brosseau]

On 2013-03-22 15:18, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> Yannick Brosseau <yannick.brosseau at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> Now all we need is to create installable images for 12.04 and
>>> 12.10 :-)
>>>>> I have uploaded source packages for libdivecomputer and subsurface.
>>>>> It'll take a while until they are built. 32 bit subsurface should be
>>>>> in the build queue in an hour and for the 64 bit build will take
>>>>> another 4 hours. (libdc should be done by the time subsurface gets
>>>>> into build servers)
>>>>>
>>>>> If these turn out to be working builds then it is time to figure out
>>>>> how to get builds for 12.10 as well.
>>>> We just have to copy the binaries from the precise repo to a quantal
>>>> one. (I can do it when it finish building)
>>>> It should work correctly.
>>> I think it might be better to create a new source package targeted at
>>> quantal with a slightly different version number (so upgrades of
>>> systems from precise->quantal  work), and upload that.
>>>
>> For the upgrade, it should not create any problem, since it the same
>> package.
>> (If there are problem with dependencies, that's another story..  I don't
>> think it will be an issue, but it would need to be tested for sure)
> So let me make sure I understand correctly.
>
> The package we have is for 12.04
>
> 13.04 will include Subsurface directly.
>
> And 12.10 cannot install the 12.04 package? I thought someone reported
> earlier that this worked...
>
Yes, it should work. It's just that the PPA are separated for each
version of Ubuntu, so we need to make them available for each of them
one by one.
We can either upload a new, but different source package or copy the
binaries from another version.