Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:04:19PM +0100 , Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
>
> I assisted today to a conference by Miguel de Icaza here in Madrid,
> it seems he is running a new business namde Helixcode
> (http://www.helixcode.com) which will be working for GNOME. In the
> conference he said that the GNOME developers do not want to make debian
> packages because "they are too difficult". But he also did not understand
> why distributions carry out old version of GNOME.
> I have taken a look at
> http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/packages.php3 and it seems they are only
> giving away rpm packages. I wonder two things:
>
> 1.- what is the current status of GNOME in Debian? I checked in
> packages.debian.org/gnome and:
> debian-frozen helix
> gnumeric 0.47 0.48
0.48 in woody, you know - freeze
> libgtop 1.06 1.07
> gtop 1.05 1.05
> gnome-print 0.10 0.12
> gnome-media 1.0.51 1.0.51
> gedit 0.5.4 0.6.1
not avital part of gnome
> gnome-core 1.0.55 1.1.5
Are distributions sopposed to use 1.1.x versions? I thought they are
development. BTW frozen has 1.0.56-2 now
> pan 0.7.6 0.7.6
> control-center 1.0.51 1.0.51
> gnapster 1.3.5 1.3.6
> glade 0.5.5 0.5.7
> dia 0.83 0.84
> gnome-gv 0.82 0.82
> gmc 4.5.42 4.5.42
> gnap 0.1.5 1.3.6
> pim 1.0.55 1.1.3
> xchat 1.4.0 1.4.0
> gnomeicu 0.90b 0.90b
> gimp 1.0.2 1.1.7
hugh. frozen has gimp_1.0.4 and gimp1.1_1.1.17
> gphoto 0.3.5 0.4.3
freeze, woody 0.4.2
> gaim 0.9.10 0.9.10
> imlib 1.9.8 1.9.7
wow. we are better :)
> I have not checked development libraries, and the results might be
> wrong... Mos of the packages are up to date with the GNOME versions, worthy
> of note on the other side, however, are gimp and gnome-core.
as noted above. gimp 1.0.4 (stable) is there and gimp 1.1.17 (unstable) also
As about gnome-core I think we have the lastest stable gnome-core threre.
Petr Cech
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Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
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