On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:26:30AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Ghe Rivero"> > > > I'm one of the fanatics that had been working on the Ximian Desktop port > > to Woody (Actually the only one packaging an preparing the patches). By > > the end of this week I hope to have finish with the last release and put > > all the sources available (at least most of then). > > > > Apart of this, i like XD2, and most of the improvements that they have > > done, but not all. It could be great if we could integrate some patches > > into the Debian desktop. I don't mind if gnome2.2 or Gnome2.4 goes into > > next stable. I'm actually working with the next XDunstable, based on > > Gnome2.4, so i can help anybody to have a real good desktop for Debian.. > > Ghe, I'm still not clear why you're doing this, particularly when you're > doing it independently of the larger woody backport project that is already > running. Just about all of the Ximian stuff is *already present* in Debian's > GNOME, minus a few fairly arguable patches here and there... I really don't > grok why you have a whole separate effort for so little benefit beyond the > current Debian unstable GNOME (including the existing woody backport)...
BTW, i am searching for woody backported 4.2.1 or 4.3.0 powerpc XFree86 packages, maybe you have an idea were to find such, and where is this 'larger existing woody backport' located ? Friendly, Sven Luther
