Re: Gnome2 for woody
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Julien Portalier wrote:
> From: Julien Portalier <julien@portalier.com>
> Subject: Re: Gnome2 for woody
>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:26:13 +0200
> Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> > >> "KW" == Kai Weber <lists@glorybox.de> writes:
> >
> > > + Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>:
> > >> If nobody want to test GNOME 2...
> >
> > > I want to test it and help with bug reports. But no package which
> > > brings me a Gnome2 desktop seems to be available for Sid. I use
> > > unstable not experimental. Building Gnome2 with Garnome succeeded
> > > but does not help Debian.
> >
> > > I would like to help as a Gnome user. But it is uninstallable for
> > > sid.
> >
> > But we should provides migration script before moving GNOME 2 in
> > unstable.
>
> Here is something i really do not understand ! Why not having gnome2 and
> gnom1.4 all together in unstable ? More and more people would be able to
> look at debian problems.
> I really do not understand why i have to get packages fom experimental
> while those packages are not unusable, or not uninstallable. They are
> working quite good (at least for me). Well, having gnome2 alongside
> gnome1.4 would NOT break anything in unstable ! Am i wrong ?
*sigh*
It doesn't when packagers append a 2 to the package name. Unfortunately,
that's not done consistently. So YES, it WILL break.
Also, the packages containing the binaries (programs) will conflict in
many cases because the binaries are named the same in GNOME 1.4 and
GNOME2 (eg gnome-session).
> The only missing features is transition packages from gnome1.4 to
> gnome2, gnome2 just doesn't care about gnome1.4 configs file. So, it
> will not break anything in user's platform, people installing gnome2
> will know what they do ! If they don't want to get gnome2, they won't
> get gnome2.
> Next, the choice will be for maintainers to prefer continue to maintain
> gnome1.4 packages, or switching to gnome2, or maintain boths packages.
Or have someone else take over the GNOME 1.4 packages.
> I do not see any real problem that would need to continue leaving gnome2
> lost in experimental. Why not having both versions in unstable ?
Conflicts in either package-names or package-contents?
> Julien
Kind regards,
Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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