RE: Helix debian packages
Hi All,
I use Helix GNOME at the moment and are very impressed. The
differences between it and the pre-packaged Debian version (at least
when I installed Helix) were large. IMO, integration of Helix into
Debian would be great - assuming the aforementioned problems can be
fixed.
What can we do to help the situation ? Has there been any
discussions with Helix about their version of GNOME and Debian ? Are
there people from Helix on this (or other perhaps GNOME related)
lists.
Will Helix allow volunteers to help them out with packaging issues ?
Can the two GNOMES exist in the debian archives together, and be
installed independantly (obviously not at the same time) ?
Sorry, lots of questions, I know - but the answers might help clear
things up a little ?
Cheers,
Marcus
(Interestingly, I noticed www.gnome.org/start points users to Helix
Gnome)
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Steve Przepiora wrote:
> If debian adopts Helix gnome, bug reports would be filed and packages would
> be fixed. You have to take into account, 1 person packages Helix gnome for
> debian. This is a great many packages for one person to keep straight.
>
> Steve Przepiora
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eduardo Marcel Macan [mailto:macan@colband.com.br]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 5:34 AM
> To: Joseph Carter
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Helix debian packages
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:26:27PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > True, but compared to Helix Gnome, Debian Gnome usually falls short. I've
> > seen bugs reported and fixed the same day with Helix. I recently switched
> > back to Debian Gnome for testing and building some Gnome software on a
> > clean system (which was a PITA still, but only a minor one..)
>
> The problem with the Helix packages is that they do not have
> the same quality when it comes to dependencies and such. I've been using
> Helix for some time and many times I've seen nasty things being done
> to dependencies. -dev packages that installed without the library
> packages, packages with conflicting files... Sometimes I thought I
> should uninstall everything and reinstall debian's but I didn t have
> the time and I feel from what I've seen done to dependencies that
> this would require quite some time.
>
> > I can say that bugs fixed months ago in Helix are still there in Debian.
> > Some of them are almost trivial problems fixed in minor upstream releases.
> > I would REALLY like to see more cooperation with Helix and Debian.. In
> > fact, I'd like Helix to be IN Debian...
>
> If only their packaging had the same quality as ours...
>
> But indeed, if all our users start moving to helix something
> will have to be done about it.
>
> --macan
>
>
>
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