Re: Gnome mini-freeze...
>>>>> On 09 Apr 2001 01:47:08 -0500, epg@progeny.com (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) said:
Eric> I've CC'd the debian-mentors list in hopes that some NMs or
Eric> candidate NMs will volunteer. I offer to sponsor any uploads.
Eric> I've also CC'd the maintainers of the out-of-date packages.
Eric> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:28:38 +0000 (UTC), aj@azure.humbug.org.au
Eric> (Anthony Towns) said:
>> It looks like GNOME 1.4 is just about able to go into woody
Eric> Not quite.
Eric> GNOME 1.4 Packages missing from unstable
Eric> panelmm
Eric> GNOME Packages not up to 1.4 in unstable
Eric> * glade* gnome-guile* gnome-pim gnome-print gnome-python* gtop
Eric> imlib scrollkeeper
No help needed for gnome-guile. It'll be uploaded in a short bit just
waiting on an answer from upstream about something.
Someone who's name I forget said they were taking gnome-pim. I
haven't seen an upload from them, so my name is still on it. Assuming
they are no longer working on it someone else can take it.
Eric> GNOME Fifth-toe apps missing from unstable
Eric> firestarter fpm** galeon gfax gnome-lokkit googlizer
Eric> radioactive toutdoux**
Eric> GNOME Fifth-toe apps not up to 1.4 in unstable
Eric> gedit gnumeric*
Eric> [1] Additionally, this one has a different name than upstream
Eric> for no obvious reason.
Eric> * denotes packages i'd like to adopt
Eric> ** denotes packages i've already filed an ITP for
Eric> Furthermore, task-gnome-desktop is totally bogus. I think we
Eric> need to toss out all the task-gnome-* packages. They shouldn't
Eric> be task packages anyway. I propose the following meta-packages:
No they shouldn't. Task packages have a particular meaning.
Eric> gnome-desktop - Pulls in GNOME core desktop functionality
Eric> gnome-applications - Pulls in (most) GNOME Fifth-toe apps
Eric> gnome-network - Pulls in network-related GNOME apps (from GNOME
Eric> *and* Fifth-toe)
This is another upstream source package. "gnome-network". A bad idea
to name a package after something upstream.
Eric> gnome-games[1] - Pulls in all GNOME games gnome-dev - Pulls in
Eric> all GNOME development packages
Eric> [1] - I see this one already exists. It should be changed to
Eric> Depend on all GNOME games, not just the ones from the
Eric> gnome-games source package.
No it shouldn't. "gnome-games" is a particular upstream source
package. It shouldn't depend on anything but what is contained in
that source.
Eric> That's 28 packages that need to be uploaded (plus the
Eric> meta-packages). Looks like a lot of work, but i think we can do
Eric> it. I think we should focus on getting GNOME up-to-date first;
Eric> most of the Fifth-toe apps aren't that important.
Eric> Unfortunately, there is another problem which may be even
Eric> bigger, and that is the gettext problem Christian brought up. I
Eric> don't know what we're going to have to do here. I doubt we can
Eric> expect upstream to resolve the issue anytime soon.
Eric> If it's decided that NMUs are appropriate, i can get all these
Eric> done in a day, if necessary (i'm lucky enough to be paid to
Eric> work on Debian).
Eric> One last thing. It's all too common to see people using Ximian
Eric> GNOME on Debian. As we all know, the Ximian packages are less
Eric> than cooperative. I think it would be nice to setup an apt
Eric> source containing all of GNOME 1.4 built for potato. I realize
Eric> that keeping such a beast up-to-date is non-trivial, so i
Eric> volunteer to do all the work.
I'm willing to help where I can here. I don't have the time luxury
you do, but I can certainly compile and upload things if that helps.
Jim
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