Re: So what do the Debian Gnome maintainers say?
Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:02, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> > I've seen lots of good comments from regular users like myself about
>> > ways to handle the Gnome 2.4 situation, but I have yet to see any
>> > comments from the key Debian Gnome maintainers (Christian comes to mind :-).
>>
>> For now I don't intent to package GNOME 2.4 for unstable because we
>> have a broken 2.2 in testing and I don't intent to upload my GNOME 2.4
>> package to experimental because, I don't use experimental and I don't
>> intent to use experimental.
>
> As much as I respect you as a packager, we need to do something with
> GNOME 2.4. Sitting on our hands until 2.2 has migrated into testing
> instead of testing 2.4 *whilst* 2.2 migrates is not an option, as we'll
> just be wasting our time.
Packaging 2.4 take exactly one day. We don't need 2 months to push 2.4
in unstable.
> Experimental is there for Debian Developers to test software, and the
> GNOME 2.4 release needs it. I'm willing to NMU your packages into
> experimental to help the process along, whilst GNOME 2.2 is coerced into
> testing.
To help who ? Because people want to play with this new release ?
Christian
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