Comments / Suggestions on GTK+ 2.4 and GNOME 2.6
Hi all,
Just a few comments about GTK+ 2.4 and GNOME 2.6 from upstream's point of
view...
* The initial GTK+ 2.4 releases won't be amazingly stable. It would almost
certainly be a bad thing for Sarge to ship with an early 2.4 release. If
the next release cycle is anything like the current one, Debian stable
users will be lumped with a relatively unstable core component of their
desktop for a long time.
* GNOME 2.6 requires GTK+ 2.4, so that basically means I'm suggesting that
Debian ship Sarge without it.
* Marshalling the 2.6 release in experimental will hopefully be fantastic,
and I'm really glad it's finally being tried out. Thanks to the GNOME
maint team! :-)
* Should Sarge take another couple of months, letting a stabilised GTK+
fall down into unstable and testing would be okay. That would allow
GNOME to fall down with it, and everyone will be super-cheery. Except
anyone hoping to see a stable Debian release. ;-)
Thanks, looking forward to running Debian's GNOME on my iBook, and testing
from experimental. :-)
- Jeff
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