On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 17:16 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > It all depends on your distro. LTS or Enterprise versions tend not > to majorly update things for stability. But whereas most such distros > are happy to update minor versions because they are usually bug > fixes, Ubuntu, for some reason, seems to stick to the same minor > version - i.e. 3.28.1, whereas it should be on 3.28.5.
The problem is that Ubuntu doesn't consider Evolution to be part of the "main" repository, because it's not the standard mail client that Ubuntu supplies (I believe their standard mail client is Thunderbird). Personally I think this is a mistake, although at one point it may have made sense since Thunderbird, while less capable than Evolution, had (probably for the same reason) less issues. I'm not convinced that's decision is still correct, especially given Ubuntu's recent move to be closer to Gnome. Maybe it can be revisited between now and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. In any event, currently Ubuntu has Evolution in the "universe" repository and the rules for software updating in "universe", even on LTS releases, are much different than "main": https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu All that being said, there is currently an upgrade to Evolution 3.28.5 in the Ubuntu 18.04 "proposed" repo. Unfortunately I know of no way to understand why the package is still in "proposed" since it was pushed there on Aug 13... I had thought proposed packages move into the mainline faster than that. Maybe some issue was identified. Jeremy has been known to drop in here; maybe he has some insight. https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html (search for evolution) Of course anyone can add the "proposed" repository to their system and install proposed updates, if they want to. Be aware that these are not finally approved so there may be issues. You might want to consider only adding proposed for "universe" (I don't know how well that will work). More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
