On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Jordi Mallach wrote: > The GNOME team have been talking about what the chances are of having > GNOME 2.8 uploaded to unstable since it was released upstream early in > September. > > While two months ago we never consider this to be a real possibility for > various reasons, today things have changed enough that we need to > reconsider.
[...] > If we get your OK to do the upload, my personal opinion is that once 2.8 > is in unstable, it'd be difficult to not end up shipping with GNOME 2.8 > in sarge, as the new shlibs will trickle to not-so-gnome-ish packages > like Firefox and so. Others may think that it should be possible to work > as KDE packages are doing it. Again, I'm confident that it'll go > smoothly. I've been helping with building PPC packages and testing the upgrade path. I can attest that with 2.8.1 being released, plus 2.8.2 and 2.8.3 packages starting to appear, GNOME 2.8 is more than ready to enter unstable. I also agree that it resolves a lot of issues that were pending in 2.6 and, as such, wholeheartedly support releasing GNOME 2.8 with Sarge. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/
