Re: Gnome 2.2 in testing

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@gmx.de>]

John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> writes:

> What is holding gnome 2.2 back from testing?

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Apart from what has been said already - the Control Center is still
held back by buggy XScreenSaver (which is not even part of Gnome, but
the version of it in testing still depends on the old
gnomecc/libcapplet0).

The XScreenSaver maintainer doesn't seem to care too much. I asked him
weeks ago tag the RC bugs 'sid sarge', at least, to make it clear to
the testing scripts that both versions are equally buggy, thus having
the newer version in testing wouldn't break anything. But somehow, he
didn't even manage to do that.

Christian, in case you read this: Could you, as a last resort, request
libcapplet0 to be removed from testing? This would free the way for
the new control center even though the newer XScreenSaver would still
be stuck in testing. As a consequence, XScreenSaver would be
uninstallable for a while until the newer version propagates into
testing. But that should be worth it, not?

Thanks,

Johannes