[Shotwell] shotwell wrong event dates + ubuntu 10.04

[Andrew Stacey]

Just chipping in ...

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Xavi Viader wrote:
> In my opinion, is not very useful to upgrade all my stuff every 6 months as
> ubuntu pretends. I do like ubuntu but I don't want to be every half year
> repairing those applications or functionallites that has stopped to work.
> I dit it from 8.04 to 10.04 (8.10,9.04,9.10) and I got fed up as every
> upgrade implies something that stops working.

Completely agree.  That's why I recently "upgraded" to Debian.

> I'll will continue using Shotwell partially with all things that are still
> useful for me.
> 
> Anyway, I'm not complaining I'm just expressing my "sadness" because I was
> so happy thinking that I was gonna have 0.11 fully working (with my
> language)  in my ubuntu 10.04.

I haven't tried with 0.11, but I did get 0.9.3 working on my Debian system
a short while ago.  Of course, I had to install some updates of some
libraries, but there's no reason not to do this if there's a particular
application that you want to install that needs them.  Just remember to
install in /usr/local (if they can be used system-wide) or in something like
/usr/local/share/shotwell_libs if they're only to be used with shotwell (then
set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH before launching shotwell).

So just because you don't want to upgrade the core OS doesn't mean that you
can't install recent versions of particular software.  You just might need to
do a bit more work.

Andrew