Re: [gedit-list] Gedit updates for Ubuntu

[Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel touzery free fr>]

Hello,

Peter Anderson wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply.  This seems like an odd response for a 
> Linux software product.  In my relatively short experience many 
> software packages (including the Linux kernel (or parts of it)) are 
> updated regularly without the need for a complete system update.  
> These packages come as a *.deb file that actually include all the 
> relevant dependent software.  It ought not be too difficult to have a 
> G-edit deb release.
This is the debian/ubuntu way, of requiring you to update your whole 
system. Otherwise, it's not that easy as it seems, at least in the 
general case.
> I'm not sure if you realise but Ubuntu "Breezy" is a long-term support 
> release and is designed to be supported and improved over a number of 
> years.  Does that mean that if I choose to stick with "Breezy" then I 
> will never get an up-grade to G-edit?  That seems like an odd policy 
> from the developers of G-edit.  I hope this is not going to be the case.
Actually, ubuntu "dapper" (which comes with gedit 2.14.x) is long-term. 
ubuntu breezy will be end-of-life in 6 months from now.

Generally speaking, policies regarding binary packages are policies of 
distributions (in this case, ubuntu) and not of upstream developers (in 
this case, gedit). So I think you should point your questions and 
comments to ubuntu, not gedit.

emmanuel