Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > > > These are the Ximian .debs? If so, they're binary incompatible with > > > official > > > GNOME .debs, and Ximian is no longer supporting sid: "unstable is > > > changing a bit > > > too fast underneath us." So I guess those .debs are for stable? > > > > Nope, for testing... Means that we won't get stuff like Nautilus 1.0.1 > > (which is part GNOME 1.4, and works on PPC) until more than 2 weeks. > > Nautilus 1.0 from unstable is broken on PPC. > > I see, makes sense. > > Nautilus 1.0 in unstable has icon label problems on my machine, but aside > from that > it seems to work fine. I'll wait the few days it takes for Takuo to upload > 1.0.1, > then build and upload that for PPC, but can understand if impatient testing > users > can't wait until it lands. Well, okay, maybe I can't understand it, but > that's their > perogative. :-) > > > Sure... But there are people that want the stuff _now_. I wanted to test > > Nautilus and Evolution more for example before going to GUADEC. I offer > > them as a gift to the Debian/PPC users, and try to do my best to keep > > them up-to-date and working. If you don't like them, and don't mind > > waiting ages to get already obsolete packages, that's your problem. > > Agreed, but other Debian/PPC users should know about their limitations, right? > Binary incompatibility with and inability to smoothly upgrade to new versions > of the > official .debs (because of version numbers) are serious issues, which any > user should > take into account before using Ximian .debs.
They are not ximian debs ! I do the exact same thing as the other maintainers. I compile everything by hand, on the latest version of unstable from glib to nautilus. > Is there a problem with this? Should I not have posted these issues to the > list? Well, you do what you want. I simply think that Debian maintainers aren't dealing with the new packages fast enough for my taste. So I do it myself. > I'm not sure I understand this part of your reply... I'm not sure I understand what you don't understand, so let's call it even =) Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
