On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:12:24PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > This split really sucks. Since I am using Helixcode GNOME I can't build > my Gnome based packages as they won't run on woody or at least I can't be > sure. I have potato and woody/helix systems. > > There was a discussion to merge Helix into Debian. The funny stuff is > that even if the Debian package is newer (and has a higher version number) > as long as it is the same version upstream apt will not update to the Debian > package.
Maybe I should provide a tool to allow easily removal of the Helix GNOME packages. I'll have to look into that.. > This means you can't just remove the Helixcode archive from sources.list and > go back to Debian :( Also most Debian Gnome maintainers seem to use Helix > as well so Helix is actually hindering Debian from moving forward :(( > > I would really like to start merging the Helix changes but as Peter Teichman > from Helix pointed out there seem to be license issues about the graphics. > And what's nice about Helix if not the graphics? I also can't understand > why Helix does not like advertisement by having their logo in the world's > most stable Linux distribution... The problem is not whether we would like the advertising. I'm not sure whether our graphics are freely redistributable enough for Debian to ship. I need to ask the appropriate people here. Nothing can be done on this end for at least a week or so - most people here are heading to Linuxworld Expo. If anyone from Debian is there and interested, I'll be glad to try to hash out some of these issues. Peter
