Re: Plans for GTK+
* Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl) [060630 20:06]:
> On Friday 30 June 2006 19:21, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > From now on, the d-i team will be able to work on the installer, basing
> > their work on these experimental packages. However this is not enough
> > to produce a release.
> >
> > In the next days, the stable 1.2 branch of libcairo should be released.
> > I hope this will allow to move the cairo udebs to unstable soon. Then,
> > synchronizing with the d-i team because it breaks former g-i packages,
> > we'll move the GTK+ udebs to unstable.
>
> For Debian Installer the plan outlined by Josselin is perfect. It provides
> us with current libraries and the possibility to polish the graphical
> version of the installer in the run-up to the Etch freeze.
> It also makes sure that we can get rid of the current "hacked" packages
> before the Etch release.
>
> It also makes us independent of the final decision by the Gnome/GTK
> maintainers to stay with GTK+ 2.8 or go for 2.10. We will be happy and
> ready to follow any decision made with regards to that.
>
> On behalf of the g-i developers and all the people who need a graphical
> installer to be able to install Debian in their own language, I'd like to
> thank Dave Beckett and Josselin Mouette for making this possible for us.
For the release team, basically two conditions are necessary:
- The installer team is happy (and is not going to move the release
version of d-i for etch to July 07 or so :),
- The dependend applications are not broken by that (this especially
means no hasted uploads of gnome or whatever to unstable; staging in
experimental is of course always ok).
In other words, as of now, the plan looks good, but we might want to
revisit it when it comes nearer to uploading the next new gnome version.
Cheers,
Andi
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