LDC 1.7.0

[Dominikus Dittes Scherkl]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 09:38:26 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 07:40:10 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
> Scherkl wrote:
>> On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 21:42:49 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>> [...] Ubuntu 16.04
>> This is a long-term support distribution.
>> Don't expect those to have actual tip versions of any SW 
>> package!
>> They rely on stabe versions that don't have the latest features
>> but only those very well tested.
>
> The semver 1.7 is not an unstable package. Its that their 
> reason for no updates?

I don't know their exact update policy, but generally the 
Long-Term support distros tend to have rather old packages for a 
lot of sw. I think they update only stuff for which security 
problems were fixed and everything that depends on those, and 
that's it.