Le Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:27:52AM -0400, Raul Miller �crivait: > Reading his message, I got the idea that we might have an operational > bottleneck with gnome2 in unstable. Given that people tend to use apt > to upgrade their systems, it's difficult to imagine how gnome1 packages > in unstable will get much exposure before being moved to testing. This > increases the risk that we'll introduce an inadvertent bug into testing > with these packages.
This is true if you create separate "gnome1" packages, otherwise it means nothing since Gnome 1.4 is already in testing... > But, I have to ask (since I don't know): Is this really an issue? The only possible issue is that Gnome1.4 in testing won't be updatable via unstable. You'd have to update it through testing-proposed-updates and annoy the Release Manager to get it installed. > In the past, I've seen people offer up very unstable packages outside > the official tree, so that regular debian work wouldn't be impacted. Gnome 2 is not very unstable. None of the problems mentionned would result in a non-fonctionnal desktop. > It might make sense to ask Christian to do this with the gnome2 packages, > BUT.. only if doing this would really save work. > > Can someone tell me what work would be saved if he were to operate > in this fashion? [Because I think this would involve extra work for > him.] > > Also: note that if only one or two package maintainers are affected, > they could themselves create their own aptable web locations so that > people who rely on gnome could put testing and this hypothetical gnome1 > repository in sources.list. > > Comments? I'm completely lost here ... I don't understand your suggestions and questions. Cheers, -- Rapha�l Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com
