Re: GNOME 2 in unstable announcement
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> From: Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>
> Subject: Re: GNOME 2 in unstable announcement
>
> <quote who="Joe Drew">
>
> > I'm not sure what you're proposing here.
>
> Okay, for Joe's benefit, I'll rehash my much earlier proposal for migration
> to G2D in Debian:
>
> - reupload the 1.x versions of stuff like gnome-terminal and sawfish, to
> replace the 2.x versions currently in unstable.
And add a suggests or recommends for the gnome 2 package maybe?
> - upload 2.x versions of G2D components [1] into unstable with *2 package
> names
>
> - upload 2.x versions of non-G2D packages with 1.x counterparts into
> unstable with *2 package names
>
> - provide dependency package for testers of G2D in unstable
>
> - announce availability of G2D and related packages in unstable
>
> - test like buggery :-)
>
> - when attempts have been made at migration and integration, remove *2
> from all packages and allow them to fall into testing in one chunk
>
> Thus resulting in testing period in unstable, and as smooth a migration as
> possible for both testing and unstable at the end of that process.
>
> - Jeff
>
> [1] http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/modules/
Kind regards,
Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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