On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Am 15.07.2008 um 19:41 schrieb David R. Morrison: >> >>> Last night, the massive gnome update which has been in process for >>> many months was merged into fink's unstable tree. This is well >>> tested, and updates by users appear to be going fairly smoothly. >>> >>> Today, we will merge the gnome update into the stable tree. Because >>> we have been unable to test the dependencies of these new packages in >>> the stable tree in advance, users can expect the "stable" tree to be >>> "not so stable" during the next few weeks, while the bugs get worked >>> out. >> >> May I suggest that we >> (a) post this to fink-announce, too (at least in theory, some people >> might be subscribed to that list but not to the user list -- people >> who only want to know about important major stuff, like this one. >> >> (b) also announce this with a news item on the website? >> >> Motivation: I already got some mails by people who use "fink >> selfupdate" regularly, but are not subscribed to fink-users etc. -- so >> they were caught unaware by the massive change. With a public news >> item, we could at least point people there, instead of having to re- >> explain everything everytime :) >> >> >> Cheers, >> Max >> > > (b) will automatically generate (a), with some delay. > > My evening network connectivity is limited for another couple of > weeks, but maybe I can slam something out this evening and get it > online. > >
Well, I got the fink-announce message out (forgetting to update the "last night" part), but I can't update the website until the finch machine will accept SSH logins again. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
