Re: debian-desktop, and relevant thoughts.
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 13:32, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:26:30AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Ghe Rivero">
> >
> > > I'm one of the fanatics that had been working on the Ximian Desktop port
> > > to Woody (Actually the only one packaging an preparing the patches). By
> > > the end of this week I hope to have finish with the last release and put
> > > all the sources available (at least most of then).
> > >
> > > Apart of this, i like XD2, and most of the improvements that they have
> > > done, but not all. It could be great if we could integrate some patches
> > > into the Debian desktop. I don't mind if gnome2.2 or Gnome2.4 goes into
> > > next stable. I'm actually working with the next XDunstable, based on
> > > Gnome2.4, so i can help anybody to have a real good desktop for Debian..
> >
> > Ghe, I'm still not clear why you're doing this, particularly when you're
> > doing it independently of the larger woody backport project that is already
> > running. Just about all of the Ximian stuff is *already present* in Debian's
> > GNOME, minus a few fairly arguable patches here and there... I really don't
> > grok why you have a whole separate effort for so little benefit beyond the
> > current Debian unstable GNOME (including the existing woody backport)...
>
> BTW, i am searching for woody backported 4.2.1 or 4.3.0 powerpc XFree86
> packages, maybe you have an idea were to find such, and where is this
> 'larger existing woody backport' located ?
Jeff is referring to mine. See:
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992
It contains xfree86 4.2.1 (with the patches to make totem work), and
methods for getting the backport to work correctly with xfree86 4.3.0
(ie recompile pango with the new freetype).
Unfortunately, it is only for i386. All the sources are there, ready to
be built, and all but one or two packages are from sid sources-- so they
should build ok (but I don't know of the specific compiler issues with
ppc and gcc-2.95.4/gcc-3.0). I'll accept patches for ppc builds (or
other arches for that matter).
Jamie
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