On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:24:46PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Any new ideas for those of us that did a d-st-upgrade opn Sarge and went > from a perfectly working GNOME 1.4 to a seriously broken GNOME 2.2? I > have tried upgrading to GNOME in Sid, I have tried getting back to 1.4. > I really don't want to have to wipe my disk and reinstall from my > Woody CD-ROM. What is the likelyhood of the dependancies finding their > way into Sarge -- things like gnome-core >= 1.5 and gnome-help >= 1.5.
FWIW, here is roughly the current state of GNOME 2 in sarge. When I say "needs <foo>", that's shorthand for "can't be upgraded in testing until the source package <foo> is ready for testing too". See http://www.debian.org/devel/testing for some of the gory details of how sarge/testing is managed. Remaining gnome/gnome-core dependencies: abiword control-center gnome-media gnome-terminal gnucash gnumeric nautilus nautilus-media Taking each in turn: abiword Needs nautilus and libwmf (which is a whole other can of worms but is getting there, providing that the upcoming release of glibc 2.3.2 to unstable doesn't get in the way too much). control-center Ironically, needs a fixed kdelibs for reasons you probably don't want to know about involving pilot-link changing some of its package names. kdelibs has a couple of release-critical bugs. This will probably take longer than anything else, unless the release manager decides to remove kdepim from testing to break the dependency chain up a bit. I don't use enough of GNOME to be sure, but I'm guessing that this being missing is a major source of breakage? gnome-media Broken on a bunch of platforms, and needs gst-plugins, which needs jack-audio-connection-kit, which needs fixes in alsaplayer, gem, and pd. gnome-terminal Build problems on a few platforms, which mostly look transient. gnucash Build problems on a bunch of platforms, some of which look transient but some of which are more exciting test failures. gnumeric Needs gal2, which just has a transient-looking build problem on one architecture. Should be ready soon. nautilus Needs cdparanoia, which is just doing its 10 days of time in unstable. Should be available within a week with any luck. nautilus-media Needs gst-plugins and nautilus, see above; build problem on arm which was a gtk+2.0 problem, now fixed. Anyway, most people here probably don't care about the details, but I thought it might be useful to say what's going on with GNOME in testing since a lot of people on this list run it. The situation above is actually markedly improved since the last time I looked at this (http://lists.debian.org/debian-release-0306/msg00008.html). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
