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Re: gnome 2.4



peloy@chapus.net (Eloy A. Paris) writes:

> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
>> This is not the point here, there is really no difference between a
>> private repository and experimental.
>
> Sven, I think you're missing one important difference: you can't have
> packages in experimental without the maintainer's approval, but you
> don't need approval from the maintainer of a package to setup unofficial
> repositories of that package. In this case Christian has manifested he
> does not plan to upload himself or to let others upload to experimental,
> so experimental is not an option unless he changes his mind. A private
> repository is an option, regardless of what Christian plans to do.

I don't said that I'll never upload in experimental but for now I don't
intent to upload to experimental. Wait and see the glibc/gcc bugs in 2
weeks.

>> None get autobuilt
>
> Agreed, this is the biggest similarity, but as I said in my previous
> post, if we collaborate we can gain some ground here.

Another problem is bug. I can't close bug fixed in 2.4 because I upload
in experimenatl and 2.4 will surely introduce new bugs, and thus the bug
number will increase and I'll spend more time to tag these bugs for
nothing.

Christian



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