Looking for slightly more up-to-date apps

[SYMC-Multimedia]

Hi. I am an intermediate use of Linux, still groping in the dark over some issues. Like this one.

For the background to this question, see ...
https://forum.sparkylinux.org/index.php?topic=6626.0

For curiosity only, please can someone explain to me who gets to decide which versions of apps end up in the Debian Stable branch?

The app we use for projection and sound in our church is OpenLP. Installing it from Debian Stable, we get version 3.0.2-2. That's pretty old. The latest and greatest is 3.1.6.

Yes, I get that "stable" means "safest", and therefore 3.1.6 hasn't been released long enough for its stability & safety to be fully understood. But surely *some* version in the 3.1.x series would be understood well enough by now to qualify?

Yes, I know about the Unstable branch, but given a team uses this software, I have to be conservative. The concept of the Stable branch definitely suits us better. I'm just asking whether it is too conservative even for us?

So, purely out of curiosity, who decides what software & versions to include in Debian Stable, and how is the decision made?

[AxL]

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For curiosity only, please can someone explain to me who gets to decide which versions of apps end up in the Debian Stable branch?

See:

• DebianReleases - Debian Wiki
  
  
• DebianSoftware - Debian Wiki
  

[....] The app we use for projection and sound in our church is OpenLP. Installing it from Debian Stable, we get version 3.0.2-2. That's pretty old. The latest and greatest is 3.1.6.

In this case, you would only have as an option to use testing/unstable packages.

Or use a slightly more conservative option. Using the Flatpak pkg provided by OpenLP (which is the version you're looking for).







Cheers !!