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How do we encourage other repos like Ubuntu to update to this version? I'd love to have some Ubuntu like distro that has faster / rolling updates for WSL and some VMs. Even the next version of Ubuntu is still stuck on version 3.4...

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It's in Ubuntu's Universe repository. That means it's usually just the upstream Debian package or one maintained by the community rather than Ubuntu itself.

Ubuntu's podman 3.4 was pulled from Debian Unstable at some point (Debian Stable is still on 3.0?). It looks like Debian Testing has 4.3, so they're probably waiting to just use that from Debian Stable in Ubuntu Lunar rather than the community maintaining their own version.

https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpod

It's in universe, so I guess wait for the newer package to be pulled from Debian (unstable currently has 4.3.4)?

Or maybe you can request it via the process outlined at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess?

A not what you're asking, but answer you're actually looking for response might be don't use Ubuntu, use a 'rolling release' distro such as Arch? (Or coming from Ubuntu perhaps the derivative Manjaro.)

By contributing the change you want to see to Debian. Ubuntu is almost entirely a straight rebuild of Debian.

That isn’t the issue. Debian experimental already has 4.4.0, but it won’t make it into Debian unstable and thus Ubuntu for a while. The issue is how frequently Debian and Ubuntu release.

How is that an issue? If you want to live on the bleeding edge, you can run experimental or unstable or whatever. Or just pull the package you want. The poster asked how to "encourage" the distros to ship the package they wanted, and now they know.

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