GNOME 3.4 packages in Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin"

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 3 April 2012 08:48, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at 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