On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: > From: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: GNOME 2 in unstable announcement > > <quote who="Joe Drew"> > > > I'm not sure what you're proposing here. > > Okay, for Joe's benefit, I'll rehash my much earlier proposal for migration > to G2D in Debian: > > - reupload the 1.x versions of stuff like gnome-terminal and sawfish, to > replace the 2.x versions currently in unstable.
And add a suggests or recommends for the gnome 2 package maybe? > - upload 2.x versions of G2D components [1] into unstable with *2 package > names > > - upload 2.x versions of non-G2D packages with 1.x counterparts into > unstable with *2 package names > > - provide dependency package for testers of G2D in unstable > > - announce availability of G2D and related packages in unstable > > - test like buggery :-) > > - when attempts have been made at migration and integration, remove *2 > from all packages and allow them to fall into testing in one chunk > > Thus resulting in testing period in unstable, and as smooth a migration as > possible for both testing and unstable at the end of that process. > > - Jeff > > [1] http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/modules/ Kind regards, Chipzz AKA Jan Van Buggenhout -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UNIX isn't dead - It just smells funny [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
