I'm not as active as I used to be on places like the Ubuntu forums and Launchpad, so I'm not sure where the best place to direct a feature request is. Currently Ubuntu 20.10 ships with freeglut 2.8, which dates all the way back to 2013. Current version is 3.2. Oddly enough, freeglut 2.8 is listed as freeglut3 in the repositories, even though it's still technically freeglut2. Reason for the query: the version of Asymptote (2.67) that ships with Ubuntu 20.10 (via TeXLive 2020) throws a segfault whenever you try to compile a 3D image to PDF. In particular: take any Asymptote example that loads the three library and run asy -f pdf -noprc example.asy. You'll get output, but you also get a segmentation fault. (I learned after plenty of correspondence with one of the Asymptote devs that it's actually a floating point exception, but in any case...) If you install the latest freeglut3 from source, using the instructions provided on the Asymptote website, everything works fine. I'm not really sure why freeglut has been held back to a version that's 7 years old.
Why are packages in the official Ubuntu repositories older than the latest (upstream) versions from Debian Sid, PPAs, the authors, etc.?
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