Re: [Evolution] Exchange Contacts not coming up

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 14:09 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 20:22 +0000, Reid, Jason I (347G) wrote:
> > Is there any way to get 3.20.3 on Ubuntu 14.04?  It looks like the
> > latest supported evolution version is 3.10.4.
>
> Please ask in a forum of your distribution if some (likely non-
> supported and unofficial) backports are available.
> Or consider upgrading your system to a more recent version.

14.04 is a LTS, long term support release. The aim of a LTS release is
to support bug fixes regarding serious issues, such as security wholes,
but to stay with software versions when ever possible, to
grant steadiness for the package dependency chain and also for the work
flow. A company unlikely wants to train employees after each upgrade.

End of life of 14.04 is August 2016, in the meantime 15.10 was released
and the new LTS 16.04. AFAIK a default Ubuntu LTS install will
automatically recommend to upgrade to the next LTS, as soon as the first
dot release is available, IOW when 16.04.01 is officially released,
likely in 2 or 3 month. The version of Evolution for 16.04 is 3.18.5.2
and FWIW the GNOME environment is version 3.14. For Ubuntu 14.04 the
version of the GNOME environment is 3.8.

Apart from the above mentioned, Ubuntu's upstream, Debian, is at 3.20.3,
but take a look at the tracker, near the right bottom, there the latest
Ubuntu version is mentioned, it's 3.18.5.2, available by the Ubuntu
development release.

There are several issues, the LTS approach + the LTS is close to the end
of life and the dependency chain unlikely allows to provide a newer
release of Evolution, even if there would be a serious security whole
and the release wouldn't be close to it's end.

I suspect there's no chance to get a backport or PPA providing 3.20.3
for Ubuntu 14.04.

Join the Ubuntu user mailing list and maybe Ubuntu devel discuss, too.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/evolution

http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gnome

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/gnome

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/evolution

http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/evolution

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Regards,
Ralf