Re: [Banshee-List] 2.2.0 in Lucid PPA

[Noah Duffy <n milo duffy gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair ubuntu com> wrote:
> On 31/10/2011 23:49, Noah Duffy wrote:
>> I'm one of those still running Ubuntu 10.04.  Mostly because I'm a
>> supporter of the LTS releases and also because I'm waiting for Unity
>> to mature a little more.  One of the downsides to this is the lack of
>> current applications.  Most are not a problem, but I do love using
>> Banshee and I love staying current with it!
>>
>> I've noticed that the Lucid PPA does not contain 2.2.0, but has the
>> 2.0.x release instead.  Does anyone know if this will be coming?  Is
>> it a fact of too many old libraries for it to run?  If that's the
>> case, I'm guessing I would have one heck of a time trying to build it
>> from source on my machine as well?
>
> I just replied a query to this off-list, so I'll just copy-paste it over:-
>
> Nope, unfortunately not. Too many things need to be backported in order to get
> Banshee 2.2 into Lucid, and those would probably require almost every other Gtk#
> application to be recompiled as well, so.. not a good idea.
>
> (At least, I recall the problem being something like that. It's in the past and
> I don't want to dig around to figure out exactly why I dropped Lucid again.)
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Loong Jin
>
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Good enough reason for me.  Looks like I'll just stick to 2.0.x until
the next LTS release of Ubuntu.

Thanks for the reply!