On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:52:23 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Anand Kumria"> > >> To me a GNOME release is a "we believe these packages work well >> together". I don't think it should necessitate them being packaged / >> uploaded all at once. > > There's a long pre-GNOME-team history of piecemeal upgrades being total > disasters, strongly discouraged by upstream, without the maintainer > showing an inkling of concern. The current Debian GNOME Team strategy of > assembling in experimental and then folding a complete upgrade into > unstable has been far and away more successful than any previous, less > disciplined, upgrades.
However the release managers _want_ piecemeal upgrades to work. In fact, iirc, that was the criteria for getting Gnome 2.8 into testing. That a piecemeal upgrade not break things. I don't think the upgrade process is any better than is was when under prior maintainership. It's just a different trade-off: slow-moving, but relatively stable, piecemeal upgrades versus big-bang style, upgrade or break (and frequently upgrade and break), transitions from one version of gnome to the other. Anand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
