Comment 27 for bug 1132700

I'm not sure what 'supported' means in this context, but I guess it's something like the core/default packages of Ubuntu (e.g. config tools, default desktop including gnome-terminal etc.) as opposed to the additional software (e.g. other vte-based terminals). Am I right?

I understand that the former category is more important, and that supporting two parallel versions is not ideal. On the other hand, blocking update of these components until all of them has a vte-0.38-based version released doesn't sound even worse to me.

The weren't too many API changes, so for Ubuntu-maintained software the transition could probably be made really quickly. The bottleneck is of course apps that are not Ubuntu-specific.

What really sucks is those apps that still use Gtk+2/vte-0.28, this ancient version of Vte contains dozens of severe bugs that were fixed in the mean time. (vte-0.36.3 is the first one I personally feel good about :)) However, at this point there's nothing we could do to urge them porting to Gtk+3.