On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 21:06 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 10:49 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > To be clear, those versions will never update Evolution to a newer > > release. That's what "LTS" implies
It's more complex, actually even non-LTS releases will never upgrade, if release model distros wouldn't freeze, they would be rolling release model distros. > Actually, Ubuntu and related distributions apply both security _and_ > bug fix updates to packages in a given distribution and push them out > to users. They generally _don't_ update the upstream-assigned major, > minor and patch version numbers but tack on yet another spec denoting > the distribution's version of the package, e.g. That's an oversimplification, actually you could expect this for packages provided by main, but evolution is part of universe. https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/evolution https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories#Universe I guess going more into details is inappropriate for this mailing list. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
