Re: please hint xfce4-session into testing

["Gustavo Franco" <stratus@debian.org>]

On 12/12/06, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
> * Yves-Alexis Perez (corsac@corsac.net) [061211 23:27]:
> > xfce4-session 4.3.99.2 is part of Xfce 4.4rc2, which has been more or
> > less uploaded to unstable, with some delay (some rc2 packages have
> > reached testing, some are only in unstable and few have not even been
> > uploaded). xfce4-session 4.4rc2 is required for using common Debian
> > Artwork (splash screen and wallpapers for example) using desktop-base
> > package. It's a new upstream release (-2 is only because -1 FTBFS'ed on
> > hurd) but it's consistent with rest of Xfce, partly uploaded.
>
> I strongly recommend against re-uploading packages with so many changes
> to fix bugs we don't mind for etch. Now you have a dependency on the new
> libpng where we are not sure yet whether it will go in or not.
>
> So, this is at least a no for now, and I doubt it will become a yes
> later on.

Dear RMs,

Please consider a alternative solution (-3 against testing being
uploaded to t-p-u?) including just the needed bits to use the default
Debian Desktop Etch artwork. That will be a real bug considering that
GNOME and KDE will fit and just part of XFCE won't.

thanks in advance,
-- stratus