Re: Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

hertzog@debian.org (Raphael Hertzog) writes:

Sounds to me like upstream is moving quickly to version 2, doesn't seem to
care that 1.4 -> 2 is a "do over" event for users, and there's not a whole lot
we can do to make that transition dramatically smoother.  Fair? 

If that's true, and we're assuming we want version 2 in sarge when sarge
releases, then I think the sooner we get version 2 packages into unstable
where they'll get lots of usage and testing attention, the better.

I'm leaning towards your option one...  Get the packages into unstable, make
sure they don't promote into testing until they're coherent and useful as a
set.  If the timing and sequencing of uploads into unstable can be done in 
such a way as to reduce the total amount of time that unstable is "known to
be broken", that's good... but unstable is named that way *exactly* because 
we expect to break things in it from time to time to handle transitions like
this...

Bdale