Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Removing the old Gnome 1 libs and core applications from Debian is a > long-term goal, as there's no upstream support, which means that we need > to cope with security issues on our own and user requests will probably > lead to nothing. It's not in Debian's interest to keep those > packages.
The message posted here and referenced on debian-devel said something different: that gnome 1 *would* be removed, period, before etch release. I hope that this is possible, but it isn't just a matter of the gnome team declaring gnome 1 obsolete. > The problem of 3rd party applications that haven't transitioned, but are > still actively developed and used, needs to be solved by porting them to > the newer Gtk+ and Gnome as fast as possible. If these blockers are > solved, the old libs can be removed and all developers are happy again. Indeed. And the gnucash upstream is spending all their energy on exactly this task. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
