On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:21:06PM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > Hi, > The Debian release manager announced recently that the time has come to > prepare for a stable release. At present we have cvs snapshots of galeon > in Sid. Most people agree this is not yet production quality; > unfortnately there isn't enough time for this situation to change. > > Another option would be to include galeon 1.2 in Debian. This would mean > maintaining a gtk1.2 version of mozilla; reinvestigating many (150+?) > reports which were closed when galeon1.3 was moved into the Debian > package; having a browser which has not been tested thoroughly with > recently mozilla builds (everyone uses galeon1.3); and having a gnome > browser which is very out of date and not consistent with the rest of > the Desktop. > I am not interested in maintaining a galeon-1.2 package and do not > personally believe it should be done. If any other developers wish to do > this (and, of course, mozilla-gtk1.2, mozilla-X-gtk1.2 packages), feel > free. (would the ftpmasters allow two versions of mozilla?) > > My next upload of galeon will be to the experimental branch of Debian as > per the requests of the release manager. I will then request the removal > of galeon packages from sarge and sid. Unfortunately this will mean that > all galeon builds will be manual until the buildd system is extended > for experimental. I will only build i386 packages - hopefully developers > with other platforms will build galeon on them.
Please dont. This would be a huge step backward, and mark the abandonment of galeon in favour of epiphany. It is not a political statement that i would like Debian doing. I (and many other people) have been using galeon 1.3 for a long time now, and it is no more crashy than other applications which are in debian and are scheduled to ship with sarge. Friendly, Sven Luther
