On Mon, Nov 12, 2007, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > I'm not sure if you're aware of the Etch and a half project and if you're > subscribed, so I'm forwarding this to you. (Since you're the most active > Gnome guys in Debian).
I never gave a reply on this query, but "it's never too late", right? :-P I saw that from your discussions you thought it made more sense to have a backport of GNOME/KDE rather than update it in etch.5; I'm fine with either solution, I always had the strong feeling that we should update our desktop more frequently than at the current pace of Debian releases. The bad news is that in the case of GNOME this requires simple but painful work as many packages are involved, especially with the Gtk+ transition which Josselin mentionned and which is a pre-requisite for most GNOME packages and the GDM socket path transition. I'm also too busy with my new job to engage in such a task. So while I would be happy to guide someone do this, I wont work on a GNOME update or backport in the near future. On the security side of things, gdm might be an issue; it's the most security sensitive part, and it was completely rewritten for GNOME 2.22 with a new security framework in mind (PolicyKit). This is subject to debates on the security architecture and risks of PolicyKit at least on the ubuntu-devel list. But we can quite certainly login into a new GNOME with an old gdm, so nothing to worry about for a backport not including gdm. At all rates, etch.5 is really a good idea, thanks for your efforts! Where can I read about the etch.5 status and timeline? Thanks! -- Loïc Minier -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
