Wishlist: Update to Unison 2.40.63

[Luke Scharf]

Wishlist: Update to Unison 2.40.63, since this is the latest stable version. Also, Unison 2.4 is the currently version most easily installed on on FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows (and Unison is picky about version numbers), so it would be easier to set up a multi-OS Union sync system with Unison 2.4.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unison (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 23 17:10:11 2011
SourcePackage: unison
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rob Hills (rhills)]

I don't believe this is a duplicate as this bug report refers specifically to Oneiric. Bug #769479 has resulted in the latest stable version of Unison (2.40.63) being made available in Precise, but it remains unavailable in Oneiric. This creates a problem for people like me who need to sync between one machine running Precise and another running Oneiric.

I suggest fixing this problem by keeping the existing "default" Unison package in Oneiric at 2.32.52, and adding an extra package "unison-2.40". This will allow people to update their unison if they want to without adversely affecting people who are happy with version 2.32.52.

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

an update to a new version can only be done via backports.
do people often need 2.32 and 2.4 at the same time? that would require renaming the unison package to add a version and make it coinstallable
a simple backport of unison would be simpler but people would have to deinstall and reinstall to change version

see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
use the requestbackport script from ubuntu-dev tools to request one.

[Rob Hills (rhills)]

While people wouldn't often need 2.32 AND 2.40 together, they may well require one of the two because unison will only work if it is the same version on both computers that are being synchronised.

Hence, at present, if one of those computers is running Oneiric and the other is running Precise, you can't use Unison to sync between them unless you install Unison version 2.32 on the machine running Precise, hence missing out on the significant improvements with version 2.40, AND not being able to sync with other machines running Precise unless they also downgrade Unison.

I'll look at the Backports stuff and see what I can do.

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

oneiric and desktop lucid are not supported anymore, all supported versions have 2.40 and 2.32 available.