On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:52:29PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > 2) Leave 2.2 to migrate from unstable to testing as it is, and get > 2.4 working in experimental. When 2.2 has fully migrated, shift 2.4 > into unstable en masse, and allow it to migrate down to testing. > > PRO: Testing will have a guaranteed stable release as a fallback > PRO: En masse shift to 2.4 in unstable may be easier on users and the BTS > CON: Development in experimental, may not provide very wide user access
Has anyone taken a *serious* look at how feasible this is? I mean, supposing the glibc/gcc mess gets fixed in anything that can be reasonably be called "near future" (i.e., no more than a week or two), what will happen with the GNOME packages? My guess is that the first thing that needs to move to testing is glib2.0 http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=glib2.0 * glib2.0 is only 9 days old. It must be 10 days to go in. * glib2.0 is waiting for glibc, gcc-3.3 Ok, that doesn't look that bad. The next thing that needs to move to testing is gtk+2.0 I'd guess: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gtk%2B2.0 * gtk+2.0 is only 1 days old. It must be 10 days to go in. * gtk+2.0 is waiting for glibc, glib2.0 * gtk+2.0 is out of date on arm: 2.2.2-3 vs 2.2.4-1 (most likely build problems) What's with that build problem? Someone looking at it? http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gtk+2.0 And now I don't have a clue how to proceed further. libgnome? http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=libgnome * libgnome is waiting for gcc-3.3, glibc Looks sane. libbonoboui: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=libbonoboui * libbonoboui is only 1 days old. It must be 10 days to go in. * libbonoboui is waiting for bonobo-activation, glibc, glib2.0, gcc-3.3 bonobo-activation: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=bonobo-activation * bonobo-activation is waiting for glibc, gcc-3.3 The other stuff in the GNOME food chain I'm not sure about. Someone care to make a list (considering dependencies)? Note that pently of GNOME 2.2 stuff seems to be happy with versions already in testing (or that's my guess looking at some of the packages). Bj�rn has some nice summary pages which can be grepped with the list of all the packages we'd be interested in. -- Marcelo
