[rsyring]

I don't claim to understand the business or politics between RedHat and Ubuntu.

I do know many projects with way less resources seem to be able to support Ubuntu and other popular distros just fine. Often through PPAs or their own apt repos (like Docker, PostgreSQL, or Incus).

If RedHat doesn't choose to, so be it. But IMO, they can't really compete with Docker when getting a recent release on the most popular distros is such a major cluster F.

[gizzlon]

If I manage an open source program like this, my job is to write the code and docs, publish it somewhere and maybe make some changes to make it more portable. That's it!

It's the distro's job to package and integrate this software with the rest of the system, to make it easier for their users.

I have 1677 packages installed. I absolutely _do not_ want to go to 1677 places to install or look for the latest version.

[tasuki]

> If RedHat doesn't choose to

You still don't get it: Canonical didn't choose to include a newer version in their 24.04 release.

[bboozzoo]

24.04 is a stable release. Package updates in stable releases need to follow the Stable Release Update process https://ubuntu.com/project/docs/SRU/stable-release-updates/ In essence someone needs to do contribute time and effort to make it happen. Canonical is free to choose the packages they want to maintain themselves and which ones go to universe and are community maintained. The upstream, if they care enough, can choose to get involved and try to do the updates. The process isn't exactly easy or fun. There's a bunch of requirements regarding backward compatibility and testing that need to be met. Snapd upstream goes though it for almost every release and it takes anything from a couple of weeks to a month. I don't think anything is stopping either party from updating the packages, although I don't why upstream wouldn't be interested in getting involved making this happen.

[tasuki]

Thank you for the explanation!