Re: [Evolution] evolution in ubuntu

[andré <andr55 laposte net>]

Le 2017-12-28 à 05:56, Andre Klapper a écrit :
> On Thu, 2017-12-28 at 11:46 +0100, Herr Oswald wrote:
> > Since then, evolution people seem not to have been
> > particularly eager to support evolution on the ubuntu platform.
>
> I have no idea what "Evolution people to support Evolution on the
> Ubuntu platform" means. It's up to each distribution to make sure that
> shipped software integrates and works well on the distribution.
> It's not the task of upstream "Evolution people" to support, maintain,
> integrate Evolution into gazillions of distributions out there.

Indeed.
> > As a ubuntu user, I feel not getting the best user experience possible
> > with evolution. Still stuck with v 3.22.6, support not as friendly as
> > I'm used to, I'm feeling like a 2nd class user...
>
> Feel free to ask Ubuntu to ship a more recent Evolution version.

EXactly.  For that, just file a bug report with whatever Ubuntu uses for 
problems.
Alternately, you could become a packager for Evolution on Ubuntu.
It won't be as difficult as you might think.  Since Evolution is already 
in the distro, the different names often used for the same dependancies 
will be already in the package configuration file.  (I don't know what 
.deb packages use; I use an .rpm based distro.)
So you would likely just have to adjust the version of dependancies for 
the newer version of Evolution.  If you need more than that, other 
packagers should be willing to help.  That is how Linux distros work.
If you don't yet understand this, I'm sure a Ubuntu packager or advanced 
user would be willing to help you.

> andre


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