Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

Le Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:50:14AM +0100, Ian Jackson ?crivait:
> > See my previous mail for discussion.  I hereby propose the following
> > resolution:
> > 
> >   The Technical Committee is of the opinion that:

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:48:01AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Sorry, but what you're saying is absolutely not in sync with the
> discussion on debian-ctte.

That we have not agreed on a proposal does not mean that we will not at
some future point agree on a proposal.

Personally, I think I could to agree with something like Ian's proposal
if I could conclude for myself that:

[a] There are package maintainers who express concepts similar to
what's said in this proposal whose package names would be affected by
this proposal,

[b] That the time till gnome2 will serve as a complete replacement for
gnome1 is likely to be significant.

[c] The proposal addresses all the technical issues.

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[b] is pretty much a given, I just need to catch up on reading list
traffic to I'm not making a mistake on [a].

That said: Ian's proposal is incomplete.  It only addresses package
names, and does not address file paths/names for files which are the same
(or are named the same) in both gnome1 and gnome2.

Some of these issues are subtle [for example: sawfish, where there's no
difference between sawfish in gnome1 vs. gnome2 but there is a difference
in what libraries it's (dynamically) linked against].

-- 
Raul