On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:07:22AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [snip]
> See my recent post to debian-release on what's needed: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release-0306/msg00008.html > > (I'm not sure how much sense that will make if you don't follow release > issues closely, but it might provide some useful information here.) > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! I normally pay no attention to release issues, but I'm trying to get an idea of when I'll get a Gnome desktop back with panel applets and Abiword. Just saw this from Johannes Rohr on debian-gtk-gnome: > About a year ago I saw real flamefests happening on this list > concerning the piecemal Gnome transition in unstable. Now, I looks > like very few people care about the poor picture of Gnome in > testing, probably because no DD uses testing, which is quite > natural. Still I think that what is happening now in testing is > worse than what happened when Gnome 2 entered unstable. > It looks like that there is no such thing as a working strategy to > ensure smooth upgrades of large package groups in testing and that > such a strategy would be bitterly needed. Or maybe the testing > scripts are not fully suited to cope with really large package > groups like Gnome or KDE. http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2003/debian-gtk-gnome-200306/msg00187.html But I'm not complaining. I'm still amazed at how well Debian works! -- Mark Garland Gainesville, Florida U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]