GNOME 3.4 packages in Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin"

[Christian Hilberg]

Hi there,

Am Dienstag 03 April 2012, um 14:48:31 schrieb Sebastien Bacher:
> 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...

Ah okay, that much was not clear to me before. Thanks for educating me. :-)

> 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 suppose so. Do you know of any PPA which could help me here? Jacob
Zimmermann did a good job back in the days of GNOME 2.30 in providing
Evolution/E-D-S 2.30.3, but I think the changes were less intrusive
back then. For 3.4, he seems to be quiet...

> > I've written to the ubuntu-desktop list since the GNOME3 PPA page [0]
> > told me so - sorry if I created noise in the wrong place. Which will
> > be the list to send my request to? Can you provide some pointers?
> Hum, what makes you think it's the wrong list? No you got at the right 
> place there ;-)

All the better. :-)


Kind regards,

	Christian

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