This focus on Ubuntu packages and ppas is all very well but what about users of other mainstream distros e.g. Debian? And why push packages out through a ppa when there is a perfectly standard route of releasing through distro repositories? Looking after several ppas when updating systems is a pain for users. I suggest you publish packages for deb and rpm distros and a tarball for the rest with clear install and dependency information on your website (as for instance dropbox does). If distros want to include Shotwell in their default install, the package maintainer/integrator for the distro should ensure the latest version is included. In the case of Debian there is the 'experimental' distro for any developer to add their stuff (currently it contains version 0.7 something).
Regds, Chris On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, [email protected] wrote:
Message: 4 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:17:49 -0500 From: Adam Dingle <[email protected]> To: David Velazquez <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Levente Torok <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Shotwell] shotwell doesn't start up Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 A couple of clarifications: The Shotwell PPA currently contains Shotwell 0.8 for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick), but only Shotwell 0.7 for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). We plan to update the PPA within the next week to include Shotwell 0.8 for Lucid as well. I fully expect that Ubuntu will include Shotwell 0.8 in Natty within the next couple of weeks. We're planning to release Shotwell 0.9 in March, and our plan is for 0.9 to be included in the final releases of both Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) and Fedora 15. adam
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