bug reporting

[Colin Law]

On 20 October 2014 19:09, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 18:53 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 20 October 2014 18:04, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 17:22 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> >> On 20 October 2014 15:26, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > How/Where do I report a bug in a Ubuntu package? Specifically Evolution
>> >> > 3.12.6
>> >>
>> >> Have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs then,
>> >> to report it, in a terminal
>> >> ubuntu-bug evolution
>> >>
>> >> Colin
>> >
>> > Thank you, I've already filed these two bugs:
>> >
>> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737733 and this one
>> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738184 which a patch has been
>> > made as per comment 19 on the first one. As he suggested I'm trying to
>> > find out whom to contact to get the patch applied to Gnome 3.12.6 in
>> > Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. I'm finding it very hard to do this.
>>
>> Start by reporting a bug in ubuntu, referencing the upstream bug.
>>
>> I am confused about the comment in the first bug about a ppa.  Have
>> you installed from a non-standard repository?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Not that I'm aware of Colin and that confused me also. That's what
> someone on askubuntu.com said. AFAIK, I upgraded to 14.04.1 correctly.
>
> I'll report the bug(s) then to Ubuntu as suggested.

Having done that, though, unless it is a security issue or
specifically ubuntu related it may be difficult to get it into Ubuntu
until upstream is released as a new version.  I don't know about
evolution particularly though so I may be wrong about this.

Once it is released upstream then it may be available via a ppa.

If you need it urgently then building it yourself may be the only
solution.  This may (or may not) be as difficult as you fear (if you
do).

Colin