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galeon (not) in Debian stable



Hi,
  The Debian release manager announced recently that the time has come to
prepare for a stable release. At present we have cvs snapshots of galeon
in Sid. Most people agree this is not yet production quality;
unfortnately there isn't enough time for this situation to change. 

Another option would be to include galeon 1.2 in Debian. This would mean
maintaining a gtk1.2 version of mozilla; reinvestigating many (150+?)
reports which were closed when galeon1.3 was moved into the Debian
package; having a browser which has not been tested thoroughly with
recently mozilla builds (everyone uses galeon1.3); and having a gnome
browser which is very out of date and not consistent with the rest of
the Desktop.
I am not interested in maintaining a galeon-1.2 package and do not
personally believe it should be done. If any other developers wish to do
this (and, of course, mozilla-gtk1.2, mozilla-X-gtk1.2 packages), feel
free. (would the ftpmasters allow two versions of mozilla?)

My next upload of galeon will be to the experimental branch of Debian as
per the requests of the release manager. I will then request the removal
of galeon packages from sarge and sid. Unfortunately this will mean that
all galeon builds will be manual until the buildd system is extended
for experimental. I will only build i386 packages - hopefully developers
with other platforms will build galeon on them. 

-- 
  .''`. Mark Howard
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