On 12/10/15 11:39, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
On Monday 12 October 2015 09:53:00 Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
I won't open that can of worms again, much has been said on that subject
already on the GNOME-2 / MATE / GNOME-3 debate a few years back.
Moving the discussion forward, I won't try to convince you to go a
different path.
Please keep in mind that Gitg is an effective development tool. I can't
understand why you are so impatient to sacrifice important and useful
features merely for UI consistency.
See my comment on the GNOME-2 / MATE / GNOME-3. Same can be said
regarding gedit, nautilus...
My guess is that you probably use only
very basic features of Gitg and never stumbled upon deficiencies and pitfalls
of new release.
Which is consistent with GNOME-3's switch of priorities to put design
and basic features first, to the detriment of more advanced ones.
On one hand I shall be happy to hand over maintenance of Gitg-3 (and its
dependencies) but on the other hand I do not want to introduce yet another
package that does mostly the same but with new interface.
And is actively developed upstream. AFAIK, the 0.2.x branch is
deprecated and won't receive any bugfix / feature.
New package is a
burden and justification for its introduction (pleasing GNOME fans?) is weak
especially considering that the package is already in "experimental".
Couldn't you just be little more patient and use package from "experimental"
in the mean time?
I'll just point that very few of the GNOME-3 apps have reached
feature-parity with their corresponding GNOME-2 / MATE version, which
makes me question whether an upload to testing / unstable will *ever*
happen. At least, according to your standards.
We are also diverging from the official statement of Debian unstable
providing "the latest and greatest" [1].
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable
Anyway, you made your position very clear and I believe further
discussion would be a wasted effort on my end.
Despite our disagreement on the subject of this bug report, I take this
opportunity to thank you for maintaining gitg in Debian.
Ghis
