Re: doesn't this work?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 20:12 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote:
> 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

Thanks. I had never heard of that. I see that it's even a checkbox in he
Syntaptic "Repositories" preferences. Is there some official description
somewhere of what can/should go in there?

We will have new packages soon and we can propose them for inclusion in
this, I guess. The maintainer is already very responsive - it was just
policy that was stopping us until now.

>       * 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.gz>
>
> 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...)
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