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Re: Debian galeon packages



Having used galeon-snapshot as my primary browser for quite some time now,
I agree; it's gotten quite stable.  I'm all for dropping galeon1 at this
point.  Compiling mozilla1.3 against gtk1.2 would be a step backwards.


On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:34:16 +0000, Mark Howard wrote:

> [Context:
>  Debian mozilla package is now compiled with gtk2. galeon1 does not
> support gtk2. galeon2 does but has not been officially released as
> stable. 
> I have suggested that since galeon2 is now quite stable we should put
> galeon2 into the Debian galeon package (for the Unstable distribution).
> A similar thing was done for gnome before it was released.
> Debian galeon package has over 140 bugs which will never get fixed in
> galeon1 - there are not enough people working on it. Most of these are
> resolved in galeon2. 
> ]
> 
[...]
>> My idea is to remake the Mozilla 1.3 package compiled for GTK1.
> 
> I need further opinions on this. My personal opinion is that this should
> not be done.




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