[Pkg-crosswire-devel] BibleTime 2.5 backporting to Ubuntu Karmic

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

2010/1/10 Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm>:
> John Zaitseff wrote:
>
>> But will BibleTime 2.5 be backported to Ubuntu Karmic (instead of
>> just using the PPA)?
>
> If you can convince me it would be worth the work to do that, then I
> could make the attempt.  How many BibleTime users on Karmic do you
> expect would benefit from that (most that I now of have added the PPA to
> their setups now already, and so have BT 2.5 available to them right
> now).  Bear in mind that Ubuntu Lucid will be out in <90 days.  Feature
> Freeze (the deadline for us to get packages into Lucid without askig for
> special exceptions) is just 5 weeks from now!  Is it really worthwhile
> backporting stuff for Karmic, when a new LTS release is almost here?
>
> Given the choice, I'd prefer to focus more on SWORD 1.6.1 and any issues
> that emerge from using that new SWORD library version with BibleTime and
> Xiphos, so that what packages we get into Lucid (SWORD 1.6.1 and
> BibleTime 2.6, maybe) is really as solid as we can make it.  Ubuntu LTS
> releases stick around for a *long* time!  But I'm open to
> suggestions/persuasion concerning why a backport to Karmic would be
> appropriate.
>
> Jonathan
>

IMHO I would stop updating older release PPA apart from current & next
development release for our testing to make packages better in Debian
Squeeze & Lucid.

Next Xiphos would not be able to run on Hardy. And Bibletime can be
run on Hardy only because newer Qt was backported. Which is never done
with GNOME & Ubuntu.



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With best regards


Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич

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