Bastien Nocera wrote: > 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? > > > > [snip] > > > 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.
Ah, this was the confusion. I read from the website at http://hadess.net/idoru.shtml the message: Ximian Gnome 1.4 packages for Debian/PPC available here ! and I mistakenly thought these were the Ximian .debs. Apologies, -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!
