Re: Christian Marillat, once again
On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 14:55, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Also, there are a metric bazillion Gnome 1 utilities in the world,
> including in Debian. Is there a solid commitment that sarge will have
> ONLY gnome 2 packages? That *every* gnome 1 packages will be
> upgraded--EVEN IF the upstream maintainer has not done so?
Nope, that's not possible. :) I think the general consensus is that the
core desktop is GNOME 2, and everything should be upgraded to the new
versions (as is always the case in Debian) - which are likely going to
be based on the GNOME 2 platform.
> Debian frequently does *NOT* operate this way, when there are major
> changes to the user interfaces. For example, major releases of GNU
> Emacs always get new package names. Even minor releases of the kernel
> get new package names. Major guile releases, perl releases, etc., all
> get new packages for JUST THIS REASON.
However, you can also look at KDE, which operates this way. (i.e., no
multiple versions.)
> It would have been *so bloody easy* to do it right:
>
> Release the gnome 2 packages with new names.
>
> Once the upgrade path is fixed, release packages under the old
> names, if the upgrade path is really as seamless as you claim it
> will be.
>
> It's very sad that nobody bothered to do that approach.
Actually, that was originally the plan, but the second step seems to
have been pre-empted.
Except that's not entirely true. The majority of GNOME 2 hasn't been
released to unstable - it's mostly in experimental with the "2" postfix.
There's no reason why the packages which can really break things - like
the panel, nautilus, etc - will be released to unstable without the "2"
prefix in the beginning, and transitioned afterwards. Christian released
gnome-terminal 2.0.0 into unstable because it was supposed to not break
anything and be superior. This is obviously not the case, but it does
provide better exposure to brand-new software and therefore results in
better software in the end. I will probably follow this example with
gedit as well, because there's not much of a reason to release a gedit2
package.
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Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org>
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