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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