[Bug 606154] Re: backport unison 2.32.52-1ubuntu2 to lucid

Derek Simkowiak ubuntu at cool-st.com
Mon Feb 7 04:03:21 UTC 2011


This has been an ongoing problem for several years now.

One version of Unison came out with Ubuntu 8.04.  When I upgraded some
of my workstations to 8.10, suddenly they could not back up to the
Unison server (which was on 8.04 LTS).  I was forced to upgrade all of
my 8.04 LTS servers to a non-official Unison package.  And here we are
again with 10.04 and 10.10.

The root cause of this headache is that Unison is not backwards
compatible between versions.  (This is stupid.  Unison should be like
rsync.)  But Ubuntu makes it worse by not offering backports when new
releases of Unison come out.

Here is another user with the same problem:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1449670.html

His use-case scenario, using Unison with Macs, Windows, and Linuxes, is
also how I use Ubuntu.

Please complain to the Unison maintainers to quit being so pedantic
about version number strings, and in the meantime, Ubuntu could start
offering regular (zero-day) backports would allow us to do easy upgrades
to our older systems.

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Title:
  backport unison 2.32.52-1ubuntu2 to lucid



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