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..

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