Re: Thoughts on GNOME 2.4 migration
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 09:52, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> 1) Ignore the glibc-based 2.2->testing migration problems and do a piece
> meal upgrade of 2.4 into unstable. When the glibc issues are sorted out,
> 2.4 will probably migrate down to testing en masse.
>
> PRO: 2.4 in unstable and in everyone's face as it goes in
> CON: Piecemeal upgrade of 2.4 in unstable may be painful
> CON: No fallback stable release in testing, may delay distro release
>
> 2) Leave 2.2 to migrate from unstable to testing as it is, and get 2.4
> working in experimental. When 2.2 has fully migrated, shift 2.4 into
> unstable en masse, and allow it to migrate down to testing.
>
> PRO: Testing will have a guaranteed stable release as a fallback
> PRO: En masse shift to 2.4 in unstable may be easier on users and the BTS
> CON: Development in experimental, may not provide very wide user access
>
> So, with my reasonably conservative release engineering hat on, I'd
> recommend option 2, especially when looking at it from the full Debian
> release perspective (which I think is important, especially for very
> user-facing GNOME packages).
I'm not sure experimental is too useful here though because portability
issues are unlikely to get fixed there, so there'll likely still be some
work to do in sid before 2.4 can enter testing, and there's no guarantee
that 2.2 can significantly sooner either.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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