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Re: Status of GNOME 2.14 in Debian



man, 03,.04.2006 kl. 13.43 -0400, skrev Adam C Powell IV:
> Just one user's perspective: I would EXTREMELY HIGHLY recommend putting
> the new evolution in unstable as soon as possible!  Evolution in testing
> is completely unusable, which left me (and probably thousands of other
> testing users) without email since about last Thursday, which will
> persist until gnome-vfs2 licensing issues are sorted out.  And unstable
> has been completely usable for some weeks, as can be seen at:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2006-March/msg00148.html

Versions which fixes both the issues in that mail, and those you are
having, have been in unstable for over a week.

There are 3 ways to get a usable evolution in testing, which are all
documented in the related bugs at bugs.debian.org/evolution:

Either to run evolution with the G_SLICE=always-malloc workaround, to
downgrade libglib2.0-0 and libpango1.0-0 to 2.8/1.10, or to upgrade with
unstable versions of evolution, evolution-data-server and
libgtkhtml3.8-15.

We had hoped that the fixed versions in unstable should have
transitioned to testing by now, but it has been stalled by issues
further down in the dependcy-chain (gnome-vfs2 licensing not being one
of those)

> Where exactly does one get packages in the NEW queue?  They're not in
> incoming (why?), nor are they findable from alioth.debian.org

If you want to play around with stuff from alioth (which is what
eventually becomes packages) you can get it from the
subversion-repositories at svn.debian.org. NEW packages are not approved
by the ftp-masters and thus not yet a part of Debian, so they are not
available.

As it is now, gnome 2.14-versions of evolution-data-server (and
hopefully evolution) will hit experimental tonight, and you'll also
probably see them in unstable eventually.

I'd also like to say that the (very) recent introduction of 2 new
members into the team of Debian evolution-maintainers (myself and
Øystein Gisnås) will help bring about higher quality packages of
evolution and friends in Debian, as there are now, finally, active
maintainers of
evolution who are also users ;)

We would still like some extra help with bug-triaging, tho' :)
(hint-hint)

Cheers,
 Heikki

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