On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:24:01 +0200 Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:18:56PM +0200, Julien Portalier �crivait: > > I do not see any real problem that would need to continue leaving > > gnome2 lost in experimental. Why not having both versions in > > unstable ? > > Because it's unnecessary work, and because it's an unneeded pain for > most applications. > > People who choose Gnome 1.4 won't be happy when Gnumeric will be > compiled with Gnome 2 libs ... and so on. So, the only realistic way > to go is to switch to Gnome 2 without keeping Gnome 1.4 which will > stay in woody of course ... of course, old libs from Gnome 1.4 will > stay for a while because not all apps are ported to GTK2/Gnome2, but > that's not a big problem. > > The real problem behind all this annoying thread is that we have too > many end-users who are using "testing" without knowing what it really > is. So people fear to send new packages in unstable because they will > end in testing ... we really need to have a "candidate" release that > is not automatically populated with packages of unstable so that we > can safely prepare a major upgrade like this one in unstable before > putting the packages in the distribution intended for release. > > I know this for quite some time ... i'm just waiting aj's forthcoming > mail on debian-devel (about "what went wrong for woody, what we can do > better for sarge") to bring back the idea and find people to implement > it. :-) Thanks for your answer, that just explains what i was not able to understand. I now know better the main reasons behind why gnome2 desktop is still in exx, and not in unstable. I just like well explained situations (eg: like with XF4.2), and that's one of the reason i like debian :) Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
