Re: [Evolution] Evolution on Ubuntu many problems - Help required

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> The real question is are there any bug fix releases related to bugs
> found in older releases or only in the current releases?
> If the answer is only related to the current releases then the
> observation appears to be correct.  If not likeable by some.
What do you mean by "older releases".  I seem to remember that two
versions are supported - the current one and the major version behind
(i.e. currently 3.4.x and 3.6.x).  Bug fixes are not released for old
versions (e.g. 2.32.x) - since they are not supported.  If a unknown bug
is somehow found in an old version, then presumably/hopefully the
current code base is examined to see if the bug still exists and it is
then fixed.  But the fix will not be released for that old version,
since it will never be created for that old version - that is, after
all, what "not supported" means.

To confuse things further some major distros, such as RHEL, will
backport appropriate patches to older versions - so RHEL6 is currently
on 2.28.3 and will be for the foreseeable future, but it is considerably
different to the 2.28.3 released by Evo a long time ago since it has had
so many patches backported to it.

In any case, this is not something that is unique to Evolution - the
whole of Gnome works in that way.

P.