Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > >> This mainly directed at Christian: *If* having an unstable libvte4 version > > This is mainly directed to /dev/null > > I like this sort of words...
Christian, don't take it personally. I think everybody agrees, Robert included, that you are doing a superb job maintaining the Gnome packages, and coordinating Gnome development in Debian (the Gnome summaries you post, your diligency WRT bugs against your packages, etc.) I for one thank you for all the work you are doing, and am happy that the Gnome Debian packages are in such good hands. But I think Robert has a point, and he was not trying to diminish your work or insult you. On the contrary, I think he is giving good constructive critisism on how to improve the situation of some packages (like libvte4 and gnome-terminal). There are definitely some problems in these unstable packages that don't seem to be present in the stable versions, and than one Gnome upstream developer has politely adviced against having these unstable packages even in Debian unstable. Of course, you are the maintainer of the Debian packages, and you call the shots here, but if you just want to keep up with the upstream bleeding edge and have packages ready as soon as upstream releases them as stable, uploading to experimental instead of unstable might not be a bad idea. I respect whatever decision you take, especially since I am getting into the habit of just putting on hold critical packages like libvte4 so I can keep running the stable versions. I was very happy when metacity was downgraded in unstable to the stable versions. Having the bleeding edge metacity was giving more headaches than anything else. Cheers, Eloy.-
