http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2003/debian-gtk-gnome-200306/msg00173.html and the resulting thread provide a better insight than this message.
>From various sources listed below, I was under the impression that gnome2 is "almost in testing". If meta-gnome-2 is made not to depend on 11 packages then "gnome2" can enter testing. That being said, it seems some of those 11 packages are rather important. Which ones are essential to gnome2? I would guess control-centre, gnome-applets, gnome-terminal, natilus, natilus-media and gnome-media. I don't know whether it's worth or appropriate to suggest dropping any dependencies. I see many of the bugs are dependency related and recent. I also see that there seems to be some problems making packages that will maybe-successful(ly) build on m68k. Again openldap2 seems to have popped in here, it will likely be fixed after it passes through the new queue. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=meta-gnome2 says: - meta-gnome2 has unsatisfiable dependencies: gnome needs gnucash on alpha, gnome-core ... more gnome-core needs... - meta-gnome2 is waiting for gnumeric, abiword, control-center, gnome-applets, gnome-terminal, nautilus, nautilus-media, gnome-media, gnucash, balsa, evolution http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html says: apt-get install gnome or apt-get install gnome-core http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-core.html says gnome-core (1.4.2-1) is in testing. http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/meta-gnome2.html says: 36 days old (needed 10 days) gnome/alpha unsatisfiable Depends: gnucash gnome-core/hppa unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media gnome/ia64 unsatisfiable Depends: gnucash gnome-core/m68k unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media gnome/mips unsatisfiable Depends: epiphany-browser | galeon gnome-core/mips unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media gnome/mipsel unsatisfiable Depends: epiphany-browser | galeon gnome-core/mipsel unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media gnome-core/s390 unsatisfiable Depends: nautilus-media Valid candidate Invalidated by dependency Not considered Depends: meta-gnome2 gnumeric (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 abiword (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 control-center (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 gnome-applets (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 gnome-terminal (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 nautilus (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 nautilus-media (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 gnome-media (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 gnucash (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 balsa (not considered) Depends: meta-gnome2 evolution (not considered) Colin Watson wrote in http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/debian-release-200306/msg00026.html control-center: * alpha: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, ppxp-applet, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * arm: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * hppa: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * i386: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * ia64: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * m68k: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * mips: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * mipsel: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * powerpc: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * s390: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome * sparc: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits, gnome-pim-conduits, xalf, xscreensaver-gnome [gnome-pilot: => pilot-link, m68k] [gnome-pilot-conduits: => gnome-pilot, => pilot-link] [gnome-pim: => pilot-link] [pilot-link: => perl => gdbm => openldap2] [ppxp-applet: build-deps on removed libpanel-applet-dev] [xalf: #183522, removal request #198790] [xscreensaver: #171772, #180063, #193581, #195740, m68k] note: some of the above may have been fixed. Some of my analysis of gnome2 related bugs: Abiword * Missing builddep RC bug * depends aiksaurus - bad build RC bug (g++ linked and not gcc linked) * depends aiksaurusgtk - keyboard input RC bug nautilus-media and gnome-media (gnome-media's in testing) * depends gst-plugins - missing config.mak two RC bugs * gnome-media also has a new depends/conflicts RC bug gnome-cash * two RC bugs (one guile-1.6 related?) * depends guile-1.6 - proposed patch(s) for RC bug(s) balsa * depends openldap2 - one RC bug nearly done? (see debian-release) evolution * Arg, a whole heap of things listed at http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=evolution Drew Daniels
