Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Ossama Othman wrote:
>
> It is true that the GNOME situation on Debian isn't favorable, to no fault
> of Debian's IMHO. However, I would like to suggest that the
> Debian developers that maintain GNOME related packages coordinate their
> efforts, if this isn't already being done. For example, I am maintaining
> the imlib packages which are currently having problems. Rather than
> upload the packages and break other packages I have asked others to test
> them. Perhaps a Debian GNOME team would be good to have. Does such an
> entity already exist? Any comments?
>
Given the size of Gnome and the number of libraries involved, this only
makes sense, IMO.
Aside from making sure all the packaging is coordinated and done in a
timely manner, this team could work on the "Debian Default Desktop," i.e.
making sure the user can easily install all the needed packages and gets a
nice user-friendly experience when they log on to the Gnome desktop. For
example, you might integrate Debian documentation into the Gnome help
system.
How about a mailing list for this? It would be for coordination and
planning among Gtk/Gnome application and library packagers. It would be
helpful to me working on gnome-apt, and I think I could be helpful to
packagers since I track upstream fairly closely and wrote some of the
stuff.
Havoc
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