Ubuntu patches to evolution, we carry a few patches to better support unity and to fix bugs that either aren't fixed upstream or only affect ubuntu. A number of other packages need rebuilds to work with the new evolution data server too
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 05:42 +1000, Jackson Doak wrote: > > It's not so much no one is interested, it's just quite a bit of time > > and effort is required to get the evolution stack into the PPA with > > all of the ubuntu patches. > > Thanks for the response! > > To be clear, by "all the Ubuntu patches" do you mean Ubuntu patches to > Evolution? Or Ubuntu patches to GNOME? > > I guess I was under the impression that Ubuntu GNOME was basically > vanilla GNOME on Ubuntu, similar to GNOME on Debian, with perhaps some > build/environment/etc. modifications to integrate with Ubuntu base > system. But, if changes to Ubuntu GNOME are pervasive enough to make > building/integrating GNOME's native Evolution code difficult, it seems > there's a lot more going on than I was aware of! > > I do know Evolution tries to be able to build with both the previous > version of GNOME and the current version (so, GNOME 3.14 and 3.16 for > Evolution 3.16) so I imagined it was well-separated. > >
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