>>>>> On 09 Apr 2001 01:47:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) >>>>> said:
Eric> I've CC'd the debian-mentors list in hopes that some NMs or Eric> candidate NMs will volunteer. I offer to sponsor any uploads. Eric> I've also CC'd the maintainers of the out-of-date packages. Eric> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:28:38 +0000 (UTC), aj@azure.humbug.org.au Eric> (Anthony Towns) said: >> It looks like GNOME 1.4 is just about able to go into woody Eric> Not quite. Eric> GNOME 1.4 Packages missing from unstable Eric> panelmm Eric> GNOME Packages not up to 1.4 in unstable Eric> * glade* gnome-guile* gnome-pim gnome-print gnome-python* gtop Eric> imlib scrollkeeper No help needed for gnome-guile. It'll be uploaded in a short bit just waiting on an answer from upstream about something. Someone who's name I forget said they were taking gnome-pim. I haven't seen an upload from them, so my name is still on it. Assuming they are no longer working on it someone else can take it. Eric> GNOME Fifth-toe apps missing from unstable Eric> firestarter fpm** galeon gfax gnome-lokkit googlizer Eric> radioactive toutdoux** Eric> GNOME Fifth-toe apps not up to 1.4 in unstable Eric> gedit gnumeric* Eric> [1] Additionally, this one has a different name than upstream Eric> for no obvious reason. Eric> * denotes packages i'd like to adopt Eric> ** denotes packages i've already filed an ITP for Eric> Furthermore, task-gnome-desktop is totally bogus. I think we Eric> need to toss out all the task-gnome-* packages. They shouldn't Eric> be task packages anyway. I propose the following meta-packages: No they shouldn't. Task packages have a particular meaning. Eric> gnome-desktop - Pulls in GNOME core desktop functionality Eric> gnome-applications - Pulls in (most) GNOME Fifth-toe apps Eric> gnome-network - Pulls in network-related GNOME apps (from GNOME Eric> *and* Fifth-toe) This is another upstream source package. "gnome-network". A bad idea to name a package after something upstream. Eric> gnome-games[1] - Pulls in all GNOME games gnome-dev - Pulls in Eric> all GNOME development packages Eric> [1] - I see this one already exists. It should be changed to Eric> Depend on all GNOME games, not just the ones from the Eric> gnome-games source package. No it shouldn't. "gnome-games" is a particular upstream source package. It shouldn't depend on anything but what is contained in that source. Eric> That's 28 packages that need to be uploaded (plus the Eric> meta-packages). Looks like a lot of work, but i think we can do Eric> it. I think we should focus on getting GNOME up-to-date first; Eric> most of the Fifth-toe apps aren't that important. Eric> Unfortunately, there is another problem which may be even Eric> bigger, and that is the gettext problem Christian brought up. I Eric> don't know what we're going to have to do here. I doubt we can Eric> expect upstream to resolve the issue anytime soon. Eric> If it's decided that NMUs are appropriate, i can get all these Eric> done in a day, if necessary (i'm lucky enough to be paid to Eric> work on Debian). Eric> One last thing. It's all too common to see people using Ximian Eric> GNOME on Debian. As we all know, the Ximian packages are less Eric> than cooperative. I think it would be nice to setup an apt Eric> source containing all of GNOME 1.4 built for potato. I realize Eric> that keeping such a beast up-to-date is non-trivial, so i Eric> volunteer to do all the work. I'm willing to help where I can here. I don't have the time luxury you do, but I can certainly compile and upload things if that helps. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @ http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach
