Re: Thoughts on GNOME 2.4 migration

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:52:29PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

 >   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

 Has anyone taken a *serious* look at how feasible this is?  I mean,
 supposing the glibc/gcc mess gets fixed in anything that can be
 reasonably be called "near future" (i.e., no more than a week or two),
 what will happen with the GNOME packages?  My guess is that the first
 thing that needs to move to testing is glib2.0

 http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=glib2.0

    * glib2.0 is only 9 days old. It must be 10 days to go in.
    * glib2.0 is waiting for glibc, gcc-3.3

 Ok, that doesn't look that bad.

 The next thing that needs to move to testing is gtk+2.0 I'd guess:

 http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gtk%2B2.0

    * gtk+2.0 is only 1 days old. It must be 10 days to go in.
    * gtk+2.0 is waiting for glibc, glib2.0
    * gtk+2.0 is out of date on arm: 2.2.2-3 vs 2.2.4-1 (most likely
      build problems)

 What's with that build problem?  Someone looking at it?

 http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gtk+2.0

 And now I don't have a clue how to proceed further.  libgnome?

 http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=libgnome

    * libgnome is waiting for gcc-3.3, glibc

 Looks sane.

 libbonoboui:

 http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=libbonoboui

    * libbonoboui is only 1 days old. It must be 10 days to go in.
    * libbonoboui is waiting for bonobo-activation, glibc, glib2.0,
      gcc-3.3

 bonobo-activation:

 http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=bonobo-activation

    * bonobo-activation is waiting for glibc, gcc-3.3

 The other stuff in the GNOME food chain I'm not sure about.  Someone
 care to make a list (considering dependencies)?  Note that pently of
 GNOME 2.2 stuff seems to be happy with versions already in testing (or
 that's my guess looking at some of the packages).

 Björn has some nice summary pages which can be grepped with the list of
 all the packages we'd be interested in.

-- 
Marcelo