Because 12.04 has libraries that are 18 months old, and Shotwell needs
newer versions of those libraries to fix the bugs and allow the
features we've added.
There's a big misconception about LTS. LTS does not mean new software
written two years after an LTS release is expected to run on it. I
recommend reading this page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
Specifically, LTS is not:
"A Feature-Based Release: We will focus on hardening functionality of
existing features, versus introducing new ones..."
If someone in the community wants to patch Shotwell 0.15 to run on
12.04, they're welcome to do so. If they do that and place it on a
PPA, we'd be more than happy to announce it on our blog. But I do know
that will re-introduce some bugs we've fixed (specifically a memory
leak we discovered in libgee) and perhaps some others, in particular
support of various cameras, as 12.04 uses old versions of gphoto2 and
LibRaw.
-- Jim
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:32 AM, csola <[email protected]> wrote:
Why isn't Ubuntu 12.04 LTS(!!!) included as a target version?
csola
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