>> "SMR" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:15:22PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: >> >> "JW" == Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Having a people.debian.org repo would be great, and a big warning sign >> > saying "gnome 2 testing area, bugger off if you want to keep your current >> > set up". :) [...] >> >> We can upload packages in experimental. > Either uploading to "experimental" or to a private .deb source sounds > fine to me. Experimental had a nice name :-) and this should be more easy to maintain than a private source (need to share login/password). > What I'm worried about is having some unsuspecting SID-user (e.g. me) > suddenly having GNOME 1 stop working because some piece of GNOME 2 got > installed during "apt-get upgrade". It would be nice to have some > public commitment from the Debian Gnomes about this. I am getting a > little worried about the Gnome 2 status reports (which are wonderful) > that state things are already installed or in "incoming". Are we sure > all of this will not upset existing Gnome 1 systems? I'm not sure if I was clear, but package name for application should be package_name2 and this package should conflict with package_name, because binaries name are the same in both packages. Thus in that case nobody can install a Gnome 2 package with an "apt-get dist-upgrade", you should do an "apt-get install package_name2" and add the experimental URL in your sources.list. If somebody can install a Gnome 2 by accident a heat my hat. Christian
