Thanks, I am not complaining about the sponsor team and I know there must be someone to do the merge and supply a debdiff or a branch for the sponsor team to actually do the sponsor.
What I am thinking is ibus is a key program for many users especially CJK users, and when someone in the community requests to update the package, there should be somebody (e.g. Ubuntu Desktop Team/Canonical Desktop Team) to do the merge and let Ubuntu Sponsor Team upload it to make the real update. We are common users and Ubuntu wiki (and in various mailing lists) is encouraging us to file requests when we need the program to be updated. But when we asked for updating the package, we seemingly need to merge it ourselves first to make it able to be updated. That's not easy or reasonable for a non-technical desktop user. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 00:54, Benjamin Drung <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Freitag, den 06.08.2010, 00:37 +0800 schrieb Aron Xu: >> For example the ibus series in Ubuntu is OLD, and I filed some sync >> and merge request about including the newer versions from Debian. But >> in fact nobody works on the ibus package's merge, and users are >> getting software that supported by Ubuntu Development team but which >> are almost dropped by upstream. There are many users in CJK >> communities using ibus-dev/shawn-p-huang 's PPAs, the first one is >> maintained by the package maintainer in Debian, the second by the ibus >> author. Only in this way users can get a better input experience, and >> I am frustrating about having 1.2.0.20091215-1ubuntu4 in >> Lucid/Maverick when 1.3.7-1 has already sit in Debian Sid. This single >> package blocks quite some other packages, like ibus-pinyin to be >> updated in Ubuntu. From a user's point of view, 1.3.x has a really big >> improvement that worth to use an "untrusted" PPA when the trusted >> maintainer team don't supply updates for quite quite long cycles. > > To get the newer version into Ubuntu someone has to do the merge and > attach a debdiff to the merge bug report [1] or request a sync and > explain why the Ubuntu changes can be dropped. > > If someone is able to provide a package in a PPA, he/she is able to > produce a proper debdiff for a merge request. > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/611224 > > -- > Benjamin Drung > Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org) > -- Regards, Aron Xu -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
