On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 02:32:27PM -0400, Michael Webster wrote: > Greetings, > > I am one of the upstream maintainers of Cinnamon (desktop) and Nemo (file > manager). > > There are currently two unofficial PPAs for Ubuntu users to get up-to-date > versions of this software, but at one point in time there was a maintainer > for these packages on Debian, and so they made their way into Ubuntu > eventually. For whatever reasons, that maintainer abandoned the project, > but unfortunately these very old, obsolete, and unsupported packages are > still available in Ubuntu. > > This results in a few problems: > > - Users end up with non-working software (for various reasons, mostly > attributable to library changes like GTK+ 3) > - Users think they've got the latest, greatest versions, and report bugs on > these unsupported versions. > - The bugs get reported to their packages' Launchpad pages, which are > unattended. > - Users have some expectation of support, when in fact there is no support > for these older versions.
There is also http://launchpad.net/bugs/1279762 regarding distribution upgrades to Ubuntu 14.04 failing which seems to have impacted a lot of users and these reports continue to trickle in. Can anything be done for these users? -- Brian Murray
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