Re: libpng & gnome & slink
Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Stephen Crowley wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:14:14AM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > > and how the unfortunate of us who already have upgraded to 1.0.2 can downgrade,
> > > > i see the 1.0.1 package nowhere ...
> > > <bma> !find libpng2 hamm
> > > <dpkg> bma: um, dists/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/libpng2_1.0.0-0.1.deb
> > >
> > > > what about latest gnome packages ? (0.99.3), is nobody packaging them ?
> > > Stephen Crowley (aka Crow-) is.
> > >
> >
> > Well, I was going to...but then jpick said just to wait til he's ready with
> > them. Who knows when that will be? For now you can get them from
> > http://master.debian.org/~crow/gnome but they aren't official so don't bug
> > me if they don't work ;) (sorry, i already erased the .diff.gz's)
> >
>
> Why don't you guys work together or something? There are debian
> directories in Gnome CVS, it would be nice to keep those up a la the Gtk
> debian directories are so people can make their own packages. Stephen if
> you don't have a Gnome CVS account that's no problem to fix. Gnome is
> *huge*, and Jim is already doing tons of other stuff. It needs to be
> packaged ASAP, so it can get some beta testing in the short time before
> 1.0, and then any post-1.0 bugfix releases will need packaging in a timely
> manner. There have been RPMs for all the .99 Gnome releases, and the
> Debian users are feeling the tarball pain.
>
> Lots of other packages are waiting on this. For example, it's hard for me
> to get any testing on Gnome-Apt until those Gnome packages are ready,
> Mitch can't even package it yet.
>
> If nothing else, let's put Stephen's unofficial packages on ftp.gnome.org
> with the RPMs, perhaps?
Hold on. I should have an upload ready in the next few hours. I've
been working on them for days.
(I was cut off from the 'net all weekend due to a hardware failure)
Cheers,
- Jim
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