Re: nautilus1.0 in woody...
On 22 Mar 2001 15:44:35 +0100, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Peter Teichman's letter:
> [snip]
> > > and the worst part is that they don't have any intention to fix the
> > > problem of distributing incompatible debs.
>
> > What? We have absolutely no reason not to fix problems in these
> > packages. If there are bugs, most likely it is because we don't know
> > about them.
>
> i wrote the first email about ximian (that was helix) packages being
> binary incompatible with debian ones about 2 months ago. they are
> still incompatible. while talking about evolution ximian debs segfaulting
> on a "vanilla" debian sid, ettore perazzoli told me that (being evolution
> an in-progress work <g>), ximian *does not* guarantee it working on anything
> else than ximian gnome.
As I stated before, we can no longer support Debian unstable. We're
making sure that any problems are fixed by the time packages migrate to
testing. Unstable is a unique case, as it is the only distribution we
support that is changing on a daily basis.
> > We can no longer claim to support Debian unstable with Ximian GNOME,
> > since unstable is changing a bit too fast underneath us. If there are
> > problems with testing or stable, though, I'd really appreciate it if
> > people would submit bug reports to bugzilla.ximian.com.
>
> obviously, replacing every single package that has a dependency on
> gtk with its ximian counterpart, results in a stable system. but i
> definitely *don't* want to install ximian gnome, just some packages,
> like evolution or red-carpet. and a mixed ximian/debian system is...
> well... can i say unstable? on the other hand, like ettore said some
> time ago "hey, we want the people run *our* version of gnome, isn't
> it?"
Please, submit bug reports. We use only Ximian packages, so we don't
know about incompatibilities with mixed systems.
Peter
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