Re: So what do the Debian Gnome maintainers say?

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@gmx.de>]

Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:43:29PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Months ? Who is talking about months ? If you really want to see 2.4 in
>>> testing more quicly try to find whats wrong with glib/gcc bugs, but this
>>> isn't so easy.
>>
>> So the only thing which is stopping gnome 2.2 from entering sarge is
>> glibc/gcc, upload to testing-proposed-updates then, and everything is
>> fine. (If the RM agrees, that is).
>
> I'll ask NM for that. We only need to move two packages in testing the
> control-center and gnome-terminal.

With control-center, the issue isn't glibc but gnome-pilot, right? In
sarge there is libgnome-pilot1 while sid has libgnome-pilot2. The old
gnome-pilot in sarge depends on libcapplet0 which is part of the old
control-center source package.

I haven't investigated, why the new gnome-pilot isn't ready for sarge
yet. Someone recently wrote that the problem involves a long
dependency chain, including KDE. But http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/
certainly has the answer.

So to force gnome2 into sarge, the gnome-pilot package would have to
be temporarily removed from testing (or deliberately broken). Do you
think this is acceptable to the RM?

Thanks,

Johannes