Can someone provide a sensible plan for GNOME in Debian, please? [Was: Bug#158165]
<quote who="Raphael Hertzog">
> Eaasy solution : drop Gnome 1.4 from unstable. We're aiming at Gnome 2
> anyway. >:->
Oh dear god... You can't 'drop' GNOME 1.x from unstable.
This is getting kinda ridiculous. Either there are a few very misinformed
people attempting to get GNOME back on track in Debian, or no one is really
trying at all, aside from their own personal ideas of what's important.
The three major issues seem to be:
1) Migration to GNOME 2.x Desktop components and other GNOME 2.x based
software.
- needs a master plan
- should not break user's desktops, even on unstable (as they may not
be interested in testing G2D at this stage)
- should not require piecemeal installation of GNOME 2.x Desktop
components such as Sawfish and gnome-terminal (they will not
interoperate correctly - the G2D components are an all-or-nothing
upgrade)
- must not involve removal of basic GTK+/GNOME libraries, or gnomecc,
as GTK+/GNOME 1.x software relies on these
- suggested that libgconf1 is patched to launch gconfd-2 (as in Red
Hat), and all GNOME 1.x packages change dependencies to gconf2,
whilst keeping library dependency the same... this should definitely
be done for sarge (this means that there will be no interoperability
issues between 1.x and 2.x desktop components and applications wrt
gconfd)
2) Migration of GTK+/GNOME 2.x to libpng3.
- should happen, but needs (needed?) a pre-formulated master plan
3) Migration of GTK+/GNOME 1.x to libpng3.
- should absolutely not happen, changes must be reverted
Despite Christian's criticisms, I'm not here to troll. I'm here to help you
guys make Debian's GNOME as good as it can be. If you need information from
upstream, or help with issues during the migration, I'm right here.
- Jeff
--
"Everyone says they like Free Software - not everyone is ready to make
the tough choices to make it happen." - Maciej Stachowiak
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