Please put most recent release on Ubuntu Software Center or Fix Your Tarball

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Ubuntu 11.10
32-bit
1.99.4

Describe the problem:
Listen, I know all of you are probably very busy, but I would be very happy if 
you took the time to post the latest release of the emulator on the Ubuntu 
Software Center so that it can be easily installed by Linux users. The version 
that is currently uploaded there is 1.5 which is very glitchy. Installing from 
your tarball is practically impossible. Thank you.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jkhaywo...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2012 at 9:32

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The current version of mupen64plus  1.99.4 with many backported patches from 
1.99.5 (to be released). See 

 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-audio-sdl
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-core
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-input-sdl
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-rsp-hle
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-rsp-z64
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-ui-console
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-video-arachnoid
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-video-glide64
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-video-rice
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mupen64plus-video-z64

And never snapshots can be found at:

 * https://launchpad.net/~sven-eckelmann/+archive/ppa
 * https://launchpad.net/~sven-eckelmann/+archive/ppa-mupen64plus

I would think that this makes this ticket invalid.

P.S.: You should also know that no developer here is a Ubuntu developer. 
Therefore, we cannot upload mupen64plus to ubuntu directly. The usual procedure 
is to upload it to Debian unstable, wait until some ubuntu MOTU developer 
decides to sync the Ubuntu universe version of mupen64plus with the Debian 
unstable version and then count the days till the next ubuntu release. Ubuntu 
will not (there are exceptions) take newer versions of a software and upload it 
for a currently stable ubuntu release. Even small patches are an extreme big 
problem and will not merged in a stable version (most of the time).

Please contact the Ubuntu MOTU team <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com> directly in 
case you think differently about the situation.

P.P.S.: The tarball works fine... you just have to use the correct one. The 
best way to get a new versions is probably to build it yourself using the 
instructions from http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/wiki/CompilingFromHg

Original comment by s...@narfation.org on 22 Feb 2012 at 8:38

• Changed state: Invalid