Am 07.10.22 um 01:04 schrieb Jim Henderson:
Calibre's current version is 6.6.1, as installed from the official website. They do specifically state that they recommend installing from their site rather than using a distribution's package manager:
"Please do not use your distribution provided calibre package, as those are often buggy/outdated. Instead use the Binary install described below."
Quite a number of projects say something like this, yet many users appreciate the convenience of being able to install everything through one package manager and have it updated semi-automatically. On top of this repackaging can improve consistency with the remaining system and deduplicate common resources like libraries, possibly updating them independently. Of course everybody is free to install software through binary installers that they find on the internet, but our goal as a distribution is to nevertheless provide it as package that we reproducibly build from source, so that nobody has to go look for an installer and then update manually. That being said, I know that Calibre is a very special snowflake and I'm glad that I don't have to maintain it. ;) Aaron