Evolution in Ubuntu

[Chris Jones]

> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:16:31 -0500
> From: Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net>
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Evolution in Ubuntu (was: Re: Evolution & Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)
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> Last year I expressed concern over the fact that Ubuntu was leaving
> behind Evolution in Lucid (that is, shipping Gnome 2.30 but leaving
> Evolution alone back at 2.28).  The explanation at that time was that
> the change from Evo 2.28 to 2.30 involved a lot of significant rework
> (which it did) and that the LTS release was not a place to experiment
> with that sort of change.
> 
> OK, fine.
> 
> I was definitely perplexed, then, to see that in Maverick, which is not
> by anyone's standards a long-term support release and is running Gnome
> 2.32, Evolution was left at version 2.30!
> 
> And now I've heard (not officially) that Natty, which (as I understand
> it) will contain Gnome 3 as the base version, will ship with Evolution
> 2.32!!
> 
> It's one thing to leave behind this package due to the confluence of LTS
> and a major amount of rewriting, but what is the justification for
> continuing to ship obsoleted versions of Evolution with every release of
> Ubuntu?
> 
> Is this some sort of new policy decision, that Evolution will forever be
> left back in every release?
> 
> 
> 

Hi Paul. I can understand what you are saying, but is it really that
important to you? I'm curious as to why it's bugging you this much. Does
Evolution 2.32 have a particular feature that you require?

If you're keen enough, you can probably sneak in the updated Evolution
into your own system from a third party PPA or something. I'm sure the
deb files are available from somewhere on the internet. It might be
worth your while doing a Google search for them.


For the record too, Natty will not be shipping with Gnome 3 as default.
Yes, it will be the default Gnome version available to install, but
Unity has replaced Gnome as the default out-of-the-box UI for Natty.

Kind regards


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