Re: doesn't this work?

[TEK-en <goran tek-en se>]

I follow your conversation but I don't understand all what you are talking 
about.

What I understand (if not right then please correct me) is that you are 
discussing how to get the updates you have done on Glome to be able to use on 
Ubuntu.

What I would like to add is that in the state Glom is on Ubuntu I can't use 
it, evaluate or even test it for real as I can't even make a field to a text 
field. So to continue with more complex queastions doesn't feel like 
realistic right now.

I do hope you will find a way to be able to use your newer version because I 
really like Glome and the potential it has. I would be happy to help you with 
what I can but right now I don't know. If you want me to test something or 
whatever, just let me know.

/Göran
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Den Sunday 20 January 2008 20:12:42 skrev Jan Claeys:
> Op zondag 20-01-2008 om 17:40 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Murray
>
> Cumming:
> > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 16:09 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > > Op vrijdag 18-01-2008 om 23:40 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Murray
> > >
> > > Cumming:
> > > > This bug was fixed, but Ubuntu don't update their packages. It's very
> > > > annoying. We (Openismus) are working on some alternative packages for
> > > > Ubuntu 7.10.
> > >
> > > The chance for updated packages is currently (almost) zero as there is
> > > no bug report on launchpad (as far as I can see?).
> >
> > There are (were) plenty of bugs, probably now closed because the updated
> > version is in unstable Ubuntu (Hardy Heron). But Ubuntu just don't do
> > bug-fix releases of packages in stable releases unless they are security
> > fixes.
>
> Ubuntu has 2 repositories for updates that aren't security fixes:
>       * gutsy-updates = important updates (e.g. for bugs that make an
>         application useless or not very useful) that don't break
>         dependencies for other applications
>       * gutsy-backports = backported packages from the next distro
>         release that don't break dependencies
>
> For example, OOo 2.3 final was released through gutsy-updates, and a lot
> of other packages too:
> <http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy-updates/main/source/Sources.g
> z>
>
> If you have a patch that only fixes bugs (doesn't add new features), and
> these bugs seriously hampers glom's usage, it should be possible to get
> an update released.  Otherwise, a backport of the hardy package to
> gutsy-backports could be useful.
>
> Of course, if you also need updates to gtkmm or something like that, it
> would be much more difficult, as other packages also use that.
>
>
> NB: 'glom' is in universe, so you should convince one of the MOTU to do
> the update.  Offering a patch based on the Ubuntu package might help
> (minimising the effort required by the developer).  (And if there is a
> bug explaining the issues, I can try to point MOTU developers to it...)
-- 
Hej



ha det bra
/Göran
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