Loïc Minier wrote:
> 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.
I don't really care, whether it's released and managed in sync with the
etch.5 update or released after it, but IMO we need to fix the 18 months
release frames for the desktop, which it's driving people to technically
less sound distributions.
> 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.
If it's currently not feasible for Gnome, we could release KDE updates
only. (Given that the KDE maintainers are interested). Gnome could still
join with a desktop update for Lenny.
I've checked KDE and Gnome and the security maintenance overhead is
acceptable. So, if we have someone managing the release and the necessary
resources and interest in the Gnome and/or KDE camp, this can become
reality.
Cheers,
Moritz
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