Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Sven LUTHER wrote:
> That is not comparable, X4.2 is still not in unstable because Branden
> did work on 4.1 until months after 4.2 was released. This is one of the
> things that gives us a reputation of releasing with obsolet versions of
> stuff, and a think we have no reason to be prud of.

Actually I think it is a thing we do have to be proud of. Branden
spend a shitload of time making sure we had a good working X in woody
that works on all architectures, and he succeeded. We can probably
safely say we have the only X that runs properly on eleven
architectures. To me that is a lot more important than having a new
upstream version of X in a release that might be a bit faster on a
small subset of the architectures Debian runs on or has a few new
features that 0.1% of our users use. 

Wichert.

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