Hello, Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Packaging 2.4 take exactly one day. We don't need 2 months to push > 2.4 in unstable. and was right. Josselin Mouette <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org> answered: > Debian is not about providing crappy packages in one day. We are > committed to provide a high-quality distribution, and it of course > requires high-quality packages. Not one-day packages. and was right. But lots of people wants to play with Gnome 2.4 and its wonderful gnome-about application so I did it. I coordinated myself here: http://www.entrouvert.be/~fred/gnome-2.4/gnome-2.4-summary.html (list created from http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/rninstallation.html) And produced debs (only for i386) that are available with: deb http://apt.bxlug.be/ gnome2.4-sid/ The process was to download current Debian package and current Gnome release and to apply patches from the first to the second. Random notes: - built against XFree86 4.3 from experimental - not Debian-quality packages - upgrade fails; need to run apt-get -f install once to correct some overwriting files - tries not to diverge from sid packages but: - librsvg now depends on libcroco (I thought it was necessary) - libbonobo creates both libbonobo and bonobo-activation packages - control-center builds fontilus and I put themus in a separate package - sources are available on http://apt.bxlug.be/gnome2.4-sid/sources but my upload rate is low so I sometimes only uploaded the .diff.gz and not the upstream .tar.gz - Gnome 2.4 feels faster on my computer and I'm happy with it Regards, Frederic
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