Re: complaints against the GNOME team
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:14:47 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
>> * Sebastien was once declared heroic for frantically packaging and
>> uploading GNOME 2.24 stuff after its release for which I'm also
>> grateful, but then he refrained from uploading Nautilus 2.24 to Sid,
>> choosing instead Experimental. I would really have preferred that she
>> mentioned this on the mailing list and not just the Debian changelog. So
>> what's still holding back Nautilus into entering Sid?
>
> I'm assuming you're talking about nautilus 2.22 here. One reason for the
> delay is that the upstream nautilus developers decided to take over most
> of gnome-volume-manager's functionality, without actually co-ordinating
> with the gnome-volume-manager developers. The result was that both
> nautilus and gnome-volume-manager tried to handle the mounting of disks,
> etc.
>
> I've been tracking the situation at <http://wiki.debian.org/Gnome/
> nautilus_vs_gnome-volume-manager>. Most of these issues have been fixed
> with the latest releases of gnome-volume-manager, however there is still
> one bit of overlapping functionality: both nautilus and gnome-volume-
> manager try to handle digital cameras. We should probably patch this
> functionality out of one or the other.
>
> I think that nautilus 2.22.2 and gnome-volume-manager 2.22.5 are ready
> for unstable: I have been using them since they appeared in experimental,
> and I really like GVFS and nautilus' new cluebar and media handling
> functionality.
I saw you did quite a bit of work sorting this mess, whose existence I
wasn't aware. Thanks much...
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