On 3 April 2012 08:48, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Le 03/04/2012 14:40, Christian Hilberg a écrit : > >> >> Hum, I was under the impression that the "GNOME3 Team" PPA was created >> exactly for that matter - to provide GNOME3 packages which do not make >> it into the current (in our case: Precise) distro version for various >> reasons and would be provided here "as is" for the adventurous. > > Well, it's one thing to provide i.e a new gnome-shell, it's another things > to provide an e-d-s which change soname and would break installed > applications, ppa are not supposed to break your system... > I will let the people most active in the ppa (Jeremy and Rico) comment about > that, but my gut feeling is that if the ppa takes a new e-d-s it should then > deal with the transition and update all the rdepends that needs an update, > then track security updates etc for any of that package, that's a lot of > work.
I agree with Seb. Managing an entire transition including all the rdepends (& keeping it up-to-date for security & bugfix updates) isn't very fun. If Evolution 3.4 didn't require all of that, then sure we would have packaged it in the PPA. Jeremy -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
