Bug#154950: gnome1/gnome2: What other choices do we have?

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:47:21PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Your analysis is quite good.

Ok, thank you.

> > But, really, I don't see the technical side of this issue.  All the
> > "badness" is being confined to unstable, and it looks like the handling
> > of the problems in unstable falls within our historical practices and
> > guidelines.  Or did I miss something?
> 
> No, you missed nothing. In any case the badness will be confined in
> unstable.

This seems to me to mean that the best action, on the part of the
committee, would be to do nothing.

> I gave 3 ways to make the transition happen, I've been advocating for
> the first solution (it's Christian Marillat's prefered solution too).
> But not everyone agreed with us, they are asking for the second
> solution ... I proposed a third solution as an alternate way that may
> help resolve the conflict.
> 
> I only want the technical committee to decide for us which of the three
> solutions is the best.

At the moment, "the best" seems to be "let the package maintainer continue
working on the problem."

> > Can we fall back on 6.3.5 here?  [That is: we're being asked to make a
> > decision, but couldn't we be pushing back and asking for more detailed
> > proposals?]
> 
> I really don't know what you need more... you have to be more precise in
> what you need.

What's ironic is that these two paragraphs say essentially the same thing.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul