On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:12:31AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 00:39, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > However, the introduction of Gnome2 is no reason to initiate a pogrom > > against Gnome1! Leave it be! It will be dropped from the archive > > when there is nobody left with the motivation to maintain it. > > > > I urge you to have some humility. People can legitimately make a > > different choice than you do. Let them! > > Feel free! Just don't ask *us* to maintain GNOME 1 versions of our > packages.
I wouldn't dream of asking that. To the contrary, I explicitly volunteered to maintain gnome-terminal and sawfish. http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2002/debian-gtk-gnome-200207/msg00079.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2002/debian-gtk-gnome-200207/msg00101.html > Nobody is saying "Don't you dare maintain GNOME 1 versions of > our packages" To the contrary, Christian M is saying exactly that: http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2002/debian-gtk-gnome-200207/msg00117.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2002/debian-gtk-gnome-200207/msg00124.html > Exercise: come up with a list of those packages which should have a *2 > version in unstable, at least to begin with. gnome-terminal, sawfish-gnome and its attendants for a start. The complete answer is: any non-library that exists in G1 and G2. > > I would turn the question around and ask you: Why do you want to make > > the decision that everyone using unstable should use Gnome2? > > > > Before you bring up the usual argument that it is "tradition" that > > there is one and only one version of a given piece of software in the > > archive at any moment in time, examine the archive a bit more > > carefully. You will find a number of exceptions: gcc, apache, > > autoconf, automake, and the linux kernel itself, to name a few. > > How about the fact that gnome 1.4 is rapidly going to be unmaintained > upstream? So what? Leave it be until noone bothers to maintain it for Debian. -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
