The key with ubuntu to ensure if you need newer versions of meson is to ensure that Debian has the latest package and as long as Debian is kept up to date new ubuntu release will end up with them until package freeze that they have scheduled.
Regards, Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> Sent: 30 April 2019 14:09 To: Enlightenment developer list <enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [E-devel] EFL Autotools freeze proposal On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:30:20 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said: > > > On 30/04/2019 17:40, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:20:19 -0700 Ross Vandegrift <r...@kallisti.us> said: > > > >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:30:33AM +0000, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > >>> I think everyone is missing the point. What you are saying is true > >>> but that is why then they say if you want newer stuff to use a PPA > >>> for it even though its not in the main repo's > >> > >> Yes, anyone can make a PPA. But you're talking to the maintainers > >> of distro packaging - we try to put packages into distros for real > >> :) > > > > and i think this was covered - a stable distro release that will not > > upgrade meson out of principle (that's the definition of stable) > > isn't going to upgrade efl either for the same reasons... so i think > > the topic is kind of moot. if someone wants to make pkgs for such > > distros they can create upgraded meson packages too etc. if they want to go > > the "all done by pkgs" > > path :) > > > > This is kind of right, in an openSUSE context for a new service pack > we probably won't update Meson because it effects alot but we can > update efl / e because it doesn't affect as much, we could also add it > if it didn't exist. Further if a new version of efl fixed a serious > bug that was hard to backport we would also take the version update. tho meson doesn't affect THAT much... it's a build tool not a "runtime tool". it isn't int he realms of libc, Xserver, bash etc. > In ubuntu's case from memory the service packs tend to only be a new > installer containing all the updates so its probably less likely, but > I don't remember how ubuntu works 100% so I could be wrong. in our case if a new efl needs a new meson, then... that's what it needs and an efl upgrade is not likely to happen then from the core distro. ppa's and equivalents can manage to fill that gap. this problem will go away over time as meson matures etc. etc. so this is a short-term problem as such. :) > -- > > Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net > > Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek > SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 > GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
