[Shotwell] Shotwell Digest, Vol 17, Issue 32

[Chris Game]

This focus on Ubuntu packages and ppas is all very well but what
about users of other mainstream distros e.g. Debian? And why push
packages out through a ppa when there is a perfectly standard route of
releasing through distro repositories? Looking after several ppas when
updating systems is a pain for users. I suggest you publish packages
for deb and rpm distros and a tarball for the rest with clear install
and dependency information on your website (as for instance dropbox
does). If distros want to include Shotwell in their default install,
the package maintainer/integrator for the distro should ensure the
latest version is included. In the case of Debian there is the
'experimental' distro for any developer to add their stuff
(currently it contains version 0.7 something).

Regds, Chris


On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, shotwell-request at lists.yorba.org wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:17:49 -0500
> From: Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org>
> To: David Velazquez <david.velazquez08 at gmail.com>
> Cc: "shotwell at lists.yorba.org" <shotwell at lists.yorba.org>,	Levente
> 	Torok <toroklev at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Shotwell] shotwell doesn't start up
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> A couple of clarifications:
>
> The Shotwell PPA currently contains Shotwell 0.8 for Ubuntu 10.10
> (Maverick), but only Shotwell 0.7 for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid).  We plan to
> update the PPA within the next week to include Shotwell 0.8 for Lucid as
> well.
>
> I fully expect that Ubuntu will include Shotwell 0.8 in Natty within the
> next couple of weeks.  We're planning to release Shotwell 0.9 in March, and
> our plan is for 0.9 to be included in the final releases of both Ubuntu
> 11.04 (Natty) and Fedora 15.
>
> adam
>