Re: [Evolution] A ppa for Evolution?

[Peter Hurley <peter hurleysoftware com>]

On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 11:39 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 13:46 +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
> > It's not really Ubuntu's fault that Gnome craziness that has sent
> > several forks of Gnome spinning off, such as Mate or Cinamon.
>
> Ermm, what have Mate and Cinnamon to do with packaging Evolution for
> Ubuntu, and Ubuntu's PPAs? 
> Free and open source is there to fork. It's part of the concept.
>
> Maybe more ontopic would be 
> "It's not GNOME's fault if $yourdistro has either not enough manpower to
> find packagers, or if $yourdistro has also forked or replaced so many
> components in the stack that it has gotten way harder for volunteers to
> compile and package the upstream tarball"? Thought of that? :)

Or that those 'volunteers' feel that the older version in the official
repository is more stable than current 'stable'.

Regards,
Peter Hurley