[Geary] Impending library version bumps and what it means for LTS/stable users

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hey all,

Just a heads up - the minimum version of a number of important 
libraries required by Geary are going to get bumped up sometime soon on 
the development branch. The plan at the moment is to depend on GTK 
3.14, along with updated versions for GLib, Vala, WebKitGTK and a few 
other libs.

This means that when Geary 0.12 is released (at least a few months away 
for the moment), it will no longer be buildable on older LTS releases 
out of the box - this will effect people using Ubuntu Trusty and 
derivatives, Mint 17.x, OpenSUSE 13.1, and maybe a few others. Debian 
Jessie (stable) will continue to be supported, but that may be dropped 
if the version of WebKit2GTK it ships proves to be too old to be useful 
and secure.

So that people on older LTS versions aren't left out in the cold, we'll 
aim to backport bug and security fixes where possible (but not any new 
features) to the 0.11 branch, and continue to make 0.11.x releases from 
when it makes sense to do so. These will be made available as usual 
from the geary-team PPA for Trusty and be available to be built from 
source and/or packaged by other LTS distros.

Do let me know if this will unduly affect you, but it is consistent 
with the idea behind LTS releases so hopefully no one will mind too 
much.

//Mike

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