ubuntu-tweak in new

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:37:19 pm Aron Xu wrote:
> 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.

The solution to problems like this is to improve Ubuntu development so we can 
make Ubuntu better for all users.  It is not to point everyone to PPAs.

Scott K