Le Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:20:49AM -0700, Chris Waters �crivait: > > Even though upstream have released Gnome 2.0 to the wide public, some > > uystream people still think that Gnome 2 is not yet ready to be imposed to > > our unstable users. > > Gnome2 is ready for users. Everyone agrees that Gnome2 should go to > unstable. The question is whether it's ready to <em>replace</em> > Gnome1, or whether Gnome1 should be maintained in parallel until a
When I say "impose", it's because Gnome2 would replace Gnome1.4 thus leaving no choice to unstable users. Otherwise nothing would be "imposed". It was not a misstatement. > smoother upgrade path is available. Debian has a reputation for > providing smooth upgrades, and simply removing Gnome1 at this point in > time does not seem to meet our usual standards. Of course, Gnome1 is kept in testing in any case ... > Maybe if we keep dithering and arguing long enough, Christian will > finish the update scripts, and the whole thing will become moot. :) I'd like it to be that way, but I'm afraid people will always be able to be unsatisfied in a way or in another with Gnome 2 since some upstream decisions have been criticized by some advanced users (ie removal of cruft^H^Hconfiguration options). Furthermore not all applets are ported... But I prefer nevertheless to have Gnome2 only in unstable. [ People who are definitely annoyed by the lack of an applet for example will decide that it's time to invest some time to port it. :-) Or they'll downgrade to Gnome1.4 in testing. ] Cheers, -- Rapha�l Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com
