Re: GNOME 2 in unstable announcement

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>]

<quote who="Joe Drew">

> I'm not sure what you're proposing here. I'm pretty sure that most
> everybody hates the idea of *2 packages as a permanent solution, but
> orphaning the normal packages implies that it will be.

Yeah, *2 would not be permanent. Orphaning wouldn't be necessary, but it's
symbolic of the fact that the G1D stuff wouldn't be maintained.

> The *2 packages were originally meant to be a step in the transition -
> they would be removed and the new versions of the GNOME 2 packages rolled
> into the non-*2 packages once they were ready.

That would be far better than replacing G1D with G2D in unstable at this
stage.

- Jeff

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