Patrick Evolution follows GNOME release cycles, which has just three dot releases on the stable branch (2.22.3). And after that only for DoS/Vulnerability fixes there will be dot releases. Distros shipping 2.22.x will pick patches from trunk/2.22.x and apply as and when required. (Atleast for OpenSUSE, I/my team does that). Im sure Ubuntu/Fedora too does the same.
If it is a really issue, may be mailing the distributors list on picking some patches for Evo/Eds may help. -Srini. On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:41 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question primarily to the maintainers of the various Linux > distributions which include Evolution 2.22.x (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Debian > Lenny), but also to the Evolution hackers: the latest stable release, > 2.22.3.1, still contains bugs. There are different ways to deal with > this: > 1. Evolution upstream continues to apply bug fixes to the 2.22.x as > long as important distributions use that. > 2. Maintainers of packages apply patches locally, without or with > help by Evolution upstream. Upstream could help with bug > tracking. > > What's the current practice? It seems that upstream has already stopped > updating the 2.22 branch and bug fixes are only applied to trunk [1]. > > I'm bringing this up because at least one of the bugs will become > critical in September: as noted this week [2], the conversion of system > time zone information into libical time zone information (as used by > Evolution) yields an end of summer time which is one week too early for > Western Europe. It might also be incorrect for other countries and for > the beginning of summer time. > > That's particularly disappointing because the work on improving time > zone support [2] was supposed to solve such issues. Now it looks like > Evolution will fail to display events at the right time - once again! > > In addition to this problem I'm sure there are other bugs which could be > included in another 2.22.x release. The broken Exchange Connector > contact change tracking [1] is one example. > > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546934#c2 > [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548268 > [3] http://www.estamos.de/blog/2008/06/22/time-zone-handling-in-evolution/ > _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
