I believe I have a gotten a good build of an updated gnome-libs. And I only cursed Joey for the problems with dh_shlibdeps a little bit.
It is currently a little lacking in the changelog department---that kind of got over-looked in the overhaul---but otherwise I think it's ready to go. One thing to note is that there is a new package, gnome-faq (I don't think it fit well in gnome-libs-data), and upstream gnome-hello has been moved into its own package, so it no longer appears here. Someone should package the new upstream version. I would appreciate people examining it and using it. I would also be nice if maintainers of gnome binaries and/or non-i386 architecture porters could compile with it. It's at http://master.debian.org/~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/. I'm uploading it now, and my DSL line doesn't give me infinite bandwidth, so you might wait five or ten minutes. Please email me any issues directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike.