Wherefore art thou, Evolution 3.16?

[Jackson Doak]

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 <paul at mad-scientist.net> 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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