Re: Gnome2 for woody
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:24:01 +0200
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> Le Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:18:56PM +0200, Julien Portalier écrivait:
> > I do not see any real problem that would need to continue leaving
> > gnome2 lost in experimental. Why not having both versions in
> > unstable ?
>
> Because it's unnecessary work, and because it's an unneeded pain for
> most applications.
>
> People who choose Gnome 1.4 won't be happy when Gnumeric will be
> compiled with Gnome 2 libs ... and so on. So, the only realistic way
> to go is to switch to Gnome 2 without keeping Gnome 1.4 which will
> stay in woody of course ... of course, old libs from Gnome 1.4 will
> stay for a while because not all apps are ported to GTK2/Gnome2, but
> that's not a big problem.
>
> The real problem behind all this annoying thread is that we have too
> many end-users who are using "testing" without knowing what it really
> is. So people fear to send new packages in unstable because they will
> end in testing ... we really need to have a "candidate" release that
> is not automatically populated with packages of unstable so that we
> can safely prepare a major upgrade like this one in unstable before
> putting the packages in the distribution intended for release.
>
> I know this for quite some time ... i'm just waiting aj's forthcoming
> mail on debian-devel (about "what went wrong for woody, what we can do
> better for sarge") to bring back the idea and find people to implement
> it. :-)
Thanks for your answer, that just explains what i was not able to
understand. I now know better the main reasons behind why gnome2 desktop
is still in exx, and not in unstable.
I just like well explained situations (eg: like with XF4.2), and that's
one of the reason i like debian :)
Julien
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