Re: new gnome2 in sarge : startup error
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:07:22AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
[snip]
> See my recent post to debian-release on what's needed:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release-0306/msg00008.html
>
> (I'm not sure how much sense that will make if you don't follow release
> issues closely, but it might provide some useful information here.)
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
Thanks!
I normally pay no attention to release issues, but I'm trying to get
an idea of when I'll get a Gnome desktop back with panel applets and
Abiword.
Just saw this from Johannes Rohr on debian-gtk-gnome:
> About a year ago I saw real flamefests happening on this list
> concerning the piecemal Gnome transition in unstable. Now, I looks
> like very few people care about the poor picture of Gnome in
> testing, probably because no DD uses testing, which is quite
> natural. Still I think that what is happening now in testing is
> worse than what happened when Gnome 2 entered unstable.
> It looks like that there is no such thing as a working strategy to
> ensure smooth upgrades of large package groups in testing and that
> such a strategy would be bitterly needed. Or maybe the testing
> scripts are not fully suited to cope with really large package
> groups like Gnome or KDE.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2003/debian-gtk-gnome-200306/msg00187.html
But I'm not complaining. I'm still amazed at how well Debian works!
--
Mark Garland
Gainesville, Florida
U.S.A.
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