On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:39AM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > It's great to see so many positive comments about galeon. Hopefully > 1.3.8 will go into stable. [galeon developers - is this likely to be > released in the next 3 weeks, or should we really be looking at 1.3.7?]. > If that's not released in a few weeks, I think we would be best looking > at a well tested cvs snapshot - there have been many great changes since > that release (5% of the changelog in only 1 month!). > I'll make a new snapshot package and upload to unstable tonight. I might > then use experimental for new snapshots for a while when trying to get > at least one version of galeon 1.3 into testing. Once 1.3.8 (or wherever > we decide to freeze) is in unstable I will also continue to make > snapshots for those of us who want them and upload these to > experimental. Way to go Mark! I'm looking forward to 1.3.8, sounds promising :) > When I replaced the unbuildable, uninstallable galeon1.2 in sid with > 1.3 snapshots from the galeon-snapshot package I was sent a lot of > flames (and so was the bts). This was obviously counterproductive (as was > the similar situation happening upstream around the time of the epiphany > fork). That's why I wanted a decision to include galeon to be made on > debian-gtk-gnome rather than taking all the responsibility myself :) > (I was also concerned about releasing a developmental version in stable > - this is my first Debian release after all) You learn a lot in release cycles. I, for example, did a big mistake with nano during the woody freeze, which caused nano in woody not be as good as it should have been. I basically uploaded an unstable version of nano to debian unstable, thus blocking the possibility of providing fixes to the stable nano in testing. First I thought nano 1.0.6 was perfectly ok, but then we found out that the boot-floppies needed a feature in 1.0.8... In your case, there's no choice. 1.3.x is the best version we have, and nearly everyone is happy with it. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jordi@sindominio.net jordi@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/
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