[Telepathy] choosing Telepathy versions for GNOME 3.12

[Simon McVittie]

On 19/03/14 15:51, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> I would advice to stay conservative this cycle and use the same branch
> than for GNOME 3.10. We (upstream) should make sure to backport
> important fixes into latest stable branches though.

Yes in principle, but Empathy 3.11.92 already requires telepathy-glib
0.23.2.

Polari doesn't seem to use IRCCommand, and Empathy doesn't seem to have
a newer telepathy-logger dependency, so let's go for "telepathy-glib
0.24, and keep the GNOME 3.10 stable-branches for the rest".

> Note that currently Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is shipping Empathy 3.8 and
> telepathy-glib 0.22. So if we have strong reasons to upgrade to newer
> version we should convince Ubuntu ASAP, otherwise I would suggest other
> distros to align. I really think it is important for everyone if major
> distros align on the same stable branches, that gives a signal to
> upstream that we should give special care at backporting important stuff
> into specific versions.

I don't think we're ever going to get all major distros, or even all
multi-year-supported distros, to align. Debian stable has 0.18, and the
next Debian stable will probably have 0.24 (or possibly 1.0).

I don't think we can necessarily guarantee that distros' policies for
what's in an acceptable stable update match ours, either; all we can do
is to release something reasonable and hope they'll take it.

In any case, 0.24 is pretty similar to 0.22, so I would expect that
important crash/security bugfixes (the sort of thing that distros want
to backport) will backport relatively easily.

    S