Takuo Kitame has told me that the "gal" package will suddenly become the 2.x version of gal, instead of the 0.x version which it has always been until now. This seems to me to be a needless churning of package names and filenames.
It also causes me pain; gnucash needs the Gnome 1 gal. I'm happy to maintain the package; that's not the problem. The problem is that Takuo wants to continue to maintain the "gal" package, but have it be the new version. Instead of simply orphaning the package he doesn't want, he is going to *totally change its source* and then take the totally new source and install the result on the old file names. For me to adapt, I need to re-package the existing "gal" package, have it install all new file names (say, /usr/lib/liboldgal.so, etc., etc.), and then make gnucash link against the mutated names, with the concomitant hassle *that* involves. I can see no good reason for the name churning, and worse yet, it's another attempt by Takuo to prevent other people from maintaining gnome-1 packages. (He has not maintained gal for YEARS, and has refused letting anyone else adopt the package either.) I don't want to do all the work of making an oldgal package, and linking gnucash against it, only to have the FTPmasters declare the whole thing insane and reject my uploads. I would like advice from the release managers and/or ftp masters on how I should most sensibly proceed. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
