[scribus] 1.5.6svn - daily builds PPA

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 23:52:02 +0100
Bert Driehuis <driehuis at playbeing.org> dijo:

>By adding a PPA, you automatically include that repository in your
>regular Ubuntu updates. Updates to Scribus will be applied at the same
>time that your regular Ubuntu updates are installed. You can see the
>details in the popup that announces regular updates.

Bert,

Thanks for the response. I know that a PPA adds whatever packages it
offers to the regular packages in the distro repositories. Except that,
in my case I was previously using the Appimage version of 1.5.3, and
Appimages don't use the repositories. Thus, after adding the PPA there
was no popup announcing that an update was available.

However, that was to be expected. After adding the PPA I did 'sudo apt
update' to refresh the available packages, then looked in Synaptic
package manager to see what was available. I selected 1.5.6-trunk
which, according to the page which describes the PPA, I knew would be
the daily builds.

The daily builds do not change the packages that are available, so if
there is a new build, it does not appear in the updates, and there will
never be a popup. On launchpad.net-scribus I see that there have been a
couple of new builds since I installed 1.5.6-trunk. When running
Scribus 1.5.6svn there is an option to look for updates, which I have
not yet used. But Scribus here has been shut down and re-launched
several times, so it's possible that these new builds have been added
and I am now alrready using a later build. I'm just trying to figure out
how I can tell which build I am using. After all, if I encounter a bug
and wish to report it I'd certainly need to specify which build I was
using when I ran into it.