more versions of unison package required to allow interoperability of all supported Ubuntu releases

[Paul Beardsell]

The unison package exists for only one reason - to allow a directory tree to be synchronised between different computers. But unison does not work unless similar versions are installed on both machines.

In Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.20 only unison-2.48 is available but unison-2.40 and earlier versions are in use on supported Ubuntu releases as well as on other Debian-based systems. Unison is also available on many non-Debian systems.

The bug is that more unison versions need to be available on all currently supported Ubuntu releases. The Ubuntu package unison-all is meant to include all the necessary versions of unison but on 16.04 and 16.10 only unison-2.48 is available. As a minimum unison-2.40 is required to be included in unison-all for 16.04 and 16.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unison (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Nov 15 23:12:18 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-22 (116 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: unison
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)