On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:42:16PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I'm cross-posting to debian-gtk-gnome since we are trying to organize > an effort to update GNOME for slink. > > > > It'd also be nice to get GNOME for slink out too. All that really > > > needs to be done is to build all of the packages we built for potato > > > for slink. The current GNOME slink packages are not all up-to-date > > > with the potato packages. Many of us don't have slink installed or > > > don't have a chrooted slink setup so any help with getting GNOME slink > > > up-to-date would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Do you mean make GNOME 1.0 available for slink, separately? It's far > > too large a change to be part of a stable revision. > > Hmm. I didn't think of it that way. I've just been "going with the > flow" in terms of what I thought most people felt. However, what you > say makes sense. What do you suggest we do? How should we go about > making GNOME available for slink? Do we _not_ want to do that? Opinion: probably not. That's what a release is.. that's what next versions of releases are for... Security fixes are a special issue but 'the next/latest/newest widgit' are not.. -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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