> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:16:31 -0500 > From: Paul Smith <p...@mad-scientist.net> > To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Evolution in Ubuntu (was: Re: Evolution & Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) > Message-ID: <1295550991.3964.39.camel@psmith-ubeta> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Last year I expressed concern over the fact that Ubuntu was leaving > behind Evolution in Lucid (that is, shipping Gnome 2.30 but leaving > Evolution alone back at 2.28). The explanation at that time was that > the change from Evo 2.28 to 2.30 involved a lot of significant rework > (which it did) and that the LTS release was not a place to experiment > with that sort of change. > > OK, fine. > > I was definitely perplexed, then, to see that in Maverick, which is not > by anyone's standards a long-term support release and is running Gnome > 2.32, Evolution was left at version 2.30! > > And now I've heard (not officially) that Natty, which (as I understand > it) will contain Gnome 3 as the base version, will ship with Evolution > 2.32!! > > It's one thing to leave behind this package due to the confluence of LTS > and a major amount of rewriting, but what is the justification for > continuing to ship obsoleted versions of Evolution with every release of > Ubuntu? > > Is this some sort of new policy decision, that Evolution will forever be > left back in every release? > > >
Hi Paul. I can understand what you are saying, but is it really that important to you? I'm curious as to why it's bugging you this much. Does Evolution 2.32 have a particular feature that you require? If you're keen enough, you can probably sneak in the updated Evolution into your own system from a third party PPA or something. I'm sure the deb files are available from somewhere on the internet. It might be worth your while doing a Google search for them. For the record too, Natty will not be shipping with Gnome 3 as default. Yes, it will be the default Gnome version available to install, but Unity has replaced Gnome as the default out-of-the-box UI for Natty. Kind regards -- Chris Jones PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web C and L Jones - Proprietors ABN: 98 317 740 240 @: chrisjo...@comcen.com.au WWW: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
