Am Freitag, den 06.08.2010, 00:37 +0800 schrieb Aron Xu: > For example the ibus series in Ubuntu is OLD, and I filed some sync > and merge request about including the newer versions from Debian. But > in fact nobody works on the ibus package's merge, and users are > getting software that supported by Ubuntu Development team but which > are almost dropped by upstream. There are many users in CJK > communities using ibus-dev/shawn-p-huang 's PPAs, the first one is > maintained by the package maintainer in Debian, the second by the ibus > author. Only in this way users can get a better input experience, and > I am frustrating about having 1.2.0.20091215-1ubuntu4 in > Lucid/Maverick when 1.3.7-1 has already sit in Debian Sid. This single > package blocks quite some other packages, like ibus-pinyin to be > updated in Ubuntu. From a user's point of view, 1.3.x has a really big > improvement that worth to use an "untrusted" PPA when the trusted > maintainer team don't supply updates for quite quite long cycles.
To get the newer version into Ubuntu someone has to do the merge and attach a debdiff to the merge bug report [1] or request a sync and explain why the Ubuntu changes can be dropped. If someone is able to provide a package in a PPA, he/she is able to produce a proper debdiff for a merge request. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/611224 -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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