On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 15.07.2008 um 19:41 schrieb David R. Morrison: > >> Last night, the massive gnome update which has been in process for >> many months was merged into fink's unstable tree. This is well >> tested, and updates by users appear to be going fairly smoothly. >> >> Today, we will merge the gnome update into the stable tree. Because >> we have been unable to test the dependencies of these new packages in >> the stable tree in advance, users can expect the "stable" tree to be >> "not so stable" during the next few weeks, while the bugs get worked >> out. > > May I suggest that we > (a) post this to fink-announce, too (at least in theory, some people > might be subscribed to that list but not to the user list -- people > who only want to know about important major stuff, like this one. > > (b) also announce this with a news item on the website? > > Motivation: I already got some mails by people who use "fink > selfupdate" regularly, but are not subscribed to fink-users etc. -- so > they were caught unaware by the massive change. With a public news > item, we could at least point people there, instead of having to re- > explain everything everytime :) > > > Cheers, > Max >
(b) will automatically generate (a), with some delay. My evening network connectivity is limited for another couple of weeks, but maybe I can slam something out this evening and get it online. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
