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The package electric VLSI is currently on revision 9.10 which has major interface changes while the version shipped with Ubuntu 11.10 is 8.10-1. This is a major inconvenience to me I would like to work with this platform for engineering education. An update of this package would be greatly appreciated. In fact this is a good engineering platform I wish Ubuntu would do more to keep up with the engineering updates with FEL Fedora Engineering Lab the lack of updates and sometimes of package availability is limiting. It would be useful if the category Engineering could follow the revisions delivered with FEL.

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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! This question should instead be filed as a bug report, thanks! Instructions here. – Jorge Castro Feb 2 at 14:42
dear askubunuters, please don't downvote "should be a bug" questions, just flag it. – poolie Feb 3 at 0:19
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If you want a technical change made in Ubuntu, you should file a bug (if there's not already a relevant bug). In this case, file a bug against the electric package.

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mayne you should start to maintain some packages yourself in your freetime. And still you can compile the software from source, if it is open source. – Michael K Feb 1 at 7:18
I did not down vote your question, and agree sometimes some of the packages can feel "stale" in the repositories. BUT keep in mind, it is not always so easy to port a rpm to a .deb . This is an "open source" community, so this may be an opportunity for you to become more involved. If you can not code, you can package. If you can not code or package you can always test and file bug reports. Lots of ways for you to both help yourself and the community at the same time. So, if these changes are important to you, best to become involved. – bodhi.zazen Feb 1 at 7:59
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