Re: XD2

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>]

<quote who="Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo">

> Unstable won't have any 2.3.x Gnome package. So the backport will be as
> much as stable as Ximian Desktop once upstream include patches from it,
> which I guess will happen in a few time. Even, mantainers can add those
> patches in the interim.

Any acceptable Ximian changes will end up in 2.3.x releases, because 2.2 is
feature frozen.

Note, however, that some of the Ximian stuff will require large changes to
various modules, and need a bunch of new modules. This will be most obvious
with the printing work. Patches to libgnomeprint* plus new modules. None of
that will even hit 2.3, given our schedule. It'll be up to the various Deb
maintainers to decide whether they want to add big patches to their modules
to integrate the new Ximian stuff into Debian's 2.2. (I guess I'd recommend
holding off for a bit, but it shouldn't be too bad, but you will have to
consider the possibility that some Ximian changes may never be accepted into
upstream, so Debian will be following an odd path.)

It's a bit of a bummer that the Ximian release wasn't synced up with our 2.3
schedule. We might be making exceptions for some Ximian changes (but not new
modules!) if they're stable.

- Jeff

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