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On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:59:53AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:05:56AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> 
> > My individual settings for xfce4 are 
> > completely lost, actually making it impossible to use xfce4 with the old 
> > settings; since they prevent the xfce4 menu from appearing.
> 
> Not something that I ever like to see, but it's not at all unheard of for
> upstream changes to invalidate user configurations from previous versions
> without providing an upgrade path.  Debian doesn't have the resources to
> compensate for every upstream who leaves their users in the lurch like this,
> sorry.
> 
The situation with upstream changes to GNOME is a good example of this:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-gnome-desktop-changes

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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