Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:02, Christian Marillat wrote: >> > I've seen lots of good comments from regular users like myself about >> > ways to handle the Gnome 2.4 situation, but I have yet to see any >> > comments from the key Debian Gnome maintainers (Christian comes to mind >> > :-). >> >> For now I don't intent to package GNOME 2.4 for unstable because we >> have a broken 2.2 in testing and I don't intent to upload my GNOME 2.4 >> package to experimental because, I don't use experimental and I don't >> intent to use experimental. > > As much as I respect you as a packager, we need to do something with > GNOME 2.4. Sitting on our hands until 2.2 has migrated into testing > instead of testing 2.4 *whilst* 2.2 migrates is not an option, as we'll > just be wasting our time.
Packaging 2.4 take exactly one day. We don't need 2 months to push 2.4 in unstable. > Experimental is there for Debian Developers to test software, and the > GNOME 2.4 release needs it. I'm willing to NMU your packages into > experimental to help the process along, whilst GNOME 2.2 is coerced into > testing. To help who ? Because people want to play with this new release ? Christian
