Re: [Evolution] A note, an appeal

[Tom <tom prost-net de>]

Am Samstag, den 18.07.2015, 09:04 -0700 schrieb Jeffrey Needle:
> Okay, I don't suppose I'll get much help here, since I'm really not
> versed in how to compile programs.  Downloading the source tarballs
> and reading the Readme make me just shiver.  I can't do any of that.
>
>
> I'm using Chromixium; the latest version of Evolution is 10.4.x.  Very
> old.  No one at Debian (I guess) is keeping this updated, so we're
> stuck with older versions.  And since Google deprecated their address
> book access, there's no way I can see to sync Google contacts with
> Evolution 10.4.x.
>
>
> I've read the archives, and there's no help suggested.
>
>
> So here's my question.  Is there someone out there willing to create
> a .deb file of the latest Evolution so that a lot of us who shrink at
> the idea of compiling on our own can install Evolution and use it?
>
>
> And is there some way to communicate with the folks who maintain the
> repositories to get them to keep up with the latest version of
> Evolution?  They seem to do this with Thunderbird, with Chromium,
> etc., but not with Evolution.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

I'd offer you make contact with Wolf Drechsel. You can search the list
archive (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/) of the last
three or four month by author to see, what he has done so far.
I'd contribute, too :-)
Best,
Thomas
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