Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:37:13AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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. 

Well, but you screw all users with newer cards that need 4.2 to run.

But again, i said i understood branden reasoning, just that this is
_not_ and argument for the current gnome2 mess.

BTW, the same will happen with sarge, we will most probably ship X 4.2
with sarge, even while 4.3 will most probably be released in a few month
and some of the 4.3 changes are already backported to Branden's beta 4.2
packages.

And also, it seems gnome2 does _not_ run well with 4.1, i had to install
the beta package for xlibs 4.2 for it to work.

Friendly,

Sven Luther