Re: xfce package
Le Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:54:15PM +0100, Fabrice Gautier écrivait: XFCE 3 is very different from the xfce in potato. [...] I think you should rename it xfce2 and it should stay in contrib, and be orphaned (but there is no known bug, so doesn't really need a maintener) at least while there is no new RC bugs discovered. And a new package (says xfce3 or simply xfce) should be build (by a new maintener) and go into main I beg to disagree here, there's no point keeping a xfce2 in contrib. But if you really want, then you're free to do it. We're not looking for more work unless it's really useful and in this case it's not that much useful ... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog 0C4CABF1 http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ pub CD Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd Formations Linux et logiciels libres : http://www.logidee.com /pub
Re: xfce package
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 21:19:36 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: upstream source. I don't know if we should upload it to frozen or if we should remove xfce from potato and only upload the new version to woody as suggested in the bub report #60258. I'd second that suggestion. Unlike the old version, the new xfce is using a free toolkit. I already began to package the lastest (gtk based) xcfe, but I haven't finished yet; if anybody wants to take this NMU over, feel free to ask, I'll send you my current patch. Cordialement, -- Si ca sent bon : mange-le, sinon pisse dessus... [Proverbe chien]
Re: xfce package
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 21:19:36 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: upstream source. I don't know if we should upload it to frozen or if we should remove xfce from potato and only upload the new version to woody as suggested in the bub report #60258. I'd second that suggestion. Unlike the old version, the new xfce is using a free toolkit. Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: xfce package
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:19:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi everybody, the package xfce seems no more maintained by Kevin Donnelly, someone should take it over. The maintainer seems MIA ... trivial bugs are not corrected for more than 172 days. Anyone wants to take it over and package the new upstream version ? it should be quite easy to do since there's a debian directory in the upstream source. I don't know if we should upload it to frozen or if we should remove xfce from potato and only upload the new version to woody as suggested in the bub report #60258. If nobody takes it over, I'll probably orphan it by marking debian-qa as the maintainer. I'm not sure... XFCE 3 is very different from the xfce in potato. The Xfce in potato is actually my alternate Window Manager after my complete Gnome environment, it's very lightweight, and had no known bug. This may be an old package but it work really well. Xfce3 is almost a complete redesign of Xfce, it now uses Gtk instead of XForms, had gnome compliancy and a lot of new features. I think you should rename it xfce2 and it should stay in contrib, and be orphaned (but there is no known bug, so doesn't really need a maintener) at least while there is no new RC bugs discovered. And a new package (says xfce3 or simply xfce) should be build (by a new maintener) and go into main Old software, good software A+ -- Fabrice Gautier [EMAIL PROTECTED] A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. -- Blake
