I'm sure Gutsy will ship with Gnome 2.20. As I understood it that was one of the reasons Ubuntu releases when it does; they try to release as soon as feasible after a new Gnome release.
On the one hand I can certainly understand the position of not wanting to destabilize the existing release. On the other hand, the Gnome .x updates often fix bugs that are quite annoying, if not critical, and they're especially important for applications which have not yet stabilized completely (such as, as mentioned, the Evolution Exchange plugin). I guess I was assuming/hoping that the Gnome updates would be fairly simple bug fixes and would NOT contain major functionality improvements, incompatible changes, etc. (and associated potential breakage), and so they would be reasonable to add as an update. However, I guess you guys have had problems with this in the past? I guess this is the downside of releasing right after the Gnome release: it gets the NEW release of Gnome into users' hands quickly, but if Ubuntu doesn't follow up with the update releases you're leaving somewhat buggy software on everyone's desktop... and if this happens for every release then we never get a stable desktop with the most serious bugs resolved; we just jump to the next .0 or .1 release, with another, different batch of serious bugs. I wonder if this is anything to be discussed with the Gnome folks. I think Ubuntu, with its release cycle, is one of the premier movers behind Gnome these days and it seems like there should be able to be some sort of consensus on the purpose and expected quality of the point updates. I did check out the backports page but they seemed pretty firm that they were only backporting individual packages and NOT entire systems (like Gnome). -- Need update to Gnome 2.18.2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120248 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
