On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:35:03PM -0700, Ossama Othman wrote: > Despite Helix's work, I'm still actively maintaining my gnome related > packages. I don't think we should allow our packages to stagnate just > because Helix will be taking over the packages. Since Helix hasn't > taken over yet, I feel a certain responsibility to ensure that my > packages are in "proper" working order. Helix can even use whatever > updates we make to our packages to ensure that the migration from the > current gnome packages to the Helix gnome packages is as smooth as > possible.
I appreciate this - I'm actively merging the changes from the Debian ones, and any fixes that are done on that end are helpful for me. > BTW, how different are the Helix gnome packages from the native debian > ones? Is Helix actively tracking our gnome related bug reports and > fixes? Generally speaking, they are more up to date. I've been tracking new versions of things fairly aggressively. I have quite a few fixes for Debian policy violations that I haven't had a chance to push to the Debian maintainers. I'm not tracking the Debian BTS as well as I should be. Most of the fixes I make to our packages are for bugs that have been reported in our system. This is mostly because I've been working on our build system, and I don't get constant mailings about the bugs in the Debian BTS. That will change as soon as I upload packages to the main distribution. Peter
