Update libpoco-dev version on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

[shekharhimanshu]

I am using Poco libraries for linux application development.
Here is my development environment:

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS"

I saw that Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS already has Poco libraries as libpoco-dev package but is old.

$ sudo apt-cache show libpoco-dev
Package: libpoco-dev
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 3567
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Source: poco
Version: 1.3.6p1-5.1build1
Replaces: libpoco5-dev
Provides: libpoco5-dev
Depends: libpococrypto9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocodata9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocofoundation9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocomysql9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpoconet9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpoconetssl9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocoodbc9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocosqlite9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocoutil9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocoxml9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocozip9v5 (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1)
Suggests: libpoco-doc, libpococrypto9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocodata9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocofoundation9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocomysql9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpoconet9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpoconetssl9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocoodbc9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocosqlite9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocoutil9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocoxml9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1), libpocozip9v5-dbg (= 1.3.6p1-5.1build1)
Conflicts: libpoco5-dev
Description: C++ Portable Components (POCO) Development files
 The POCO C++ Libraries are a collection of open source C++ class libraries
 that simplify and accelerate the development of network-centric, portable
 applications in C++. The libraries integrate perfectly with the C++ Standard
 Library and fill many of the functional gaps left open by it.
 .
 POCO is built strictly using standard ANSI/ISO C++, including the standard
 library. The contributors attempt to find a good balance between using advanced
 C++ features and keeping the classes comprehensible and the code clean,
 consistent and easy to maintain.
 .
 POCO consists of four core libraries, and a number of add-on libraries. The
 core libraries are Foundation, XML, Util and Net. Two of the add-on libraries
 are NetSSL, providing SSL support for the network classes in the Net library,
 and Data, a library for uniformly accessing different SQL databases.
Description-md5: 001356e1ebbed92df725fe478f69534f
Original-Maintainer: Cristian Greco <cristian@debian.org>
Homepage: http://poco.sourceforge.net/

Are there any plans to update this to the latest version of Poco?

[ibroheem]

Debian testing have the 1.7.6 version.

[shekharhimanshu]

Thanks. Yes, I saw that too. But I would prefer using the stable repo if possible.

[zosrothko]

You can use my personnal ppa at https://launchpad.net/~zosrothko/+archive/ubuntu/poco
if the poco-1.7.3 is ok for you.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zosrothko/poco
sudo apt-get update

[shekharhimanshu]

That will work for now.
Thanks a lot.

[zosrothko]

thus could you close this issue?

[zosrothko]

BTW, are you familiar with Launchpad organization? I am looking for a admin that will give me a ownership of poco@Launchpad. I wrote many mail to the admin groups without success.

[shekharhimanshu]

I am a member of Launchpad but I dont have admin rights.
I understand why you guys would like to have the ownership of poco@Launchpad though.

[timur-g]

This is old topic but I could not find better, Interestingly poco has no PPA and the one mentioned here does not exist anymore.
There was other PPA in Launcpad but it is long obsolete.

It would still be useful. Like, I'm in Mint which is Ubuntu 22.04 and want to build the package that just raised poco to 1.12+.
PPA is the easiest and pity it does not exist.