Status update for GNOME 2.24 and 2.26

[Jordi Mallach]

Hi,

I posted a status update regarding the GNOME situation post the lenny
freeze to my blog, which is syndicated by Planet GNOME.

For those who have missed it, here is a text version.

GNOME 2.26 was released last week, and I couldn't help adding myself to
the long list of celebrating posts in Planet GNOME. Looking at the
release notes, it looks like this release adds a good number of very
visible features, and also keeps improving on ongoing transitions like
gvfs.

The Debian GNOME team is obviously not ignoring this fact and started to
work very hard on updating GNOME for squeeze as soon as the lenny freeze
was over.

First, the new versions of GLib and GTK+ were uploaded to unstable, and
managed to transition to testing very easily. The rest of GNOME 2.24
bits, which had been patiently waiting on experimental for months, has
been uploaded with care not to disrupt any of the many transitions the
Debian release team is currently dealing with. You can have a quick
glance at how things are going in our 2.24 status page, but the summary
is that most of GNOME 2.24 is in unstable, with a few notable exceptions
which are held back by ongoing testing transitions. Namedly,
evolution-data-server is trying to trickle into testing, which is in turn
holding the final bits: gnome-panel, nautilus and related packages, but
we think this will be over soon.

As soon as GNOME 2.24 is safe in squeeze, we'll immediately turn our
focus to the new GNOME 2.26 release. Our initial plan is to package the
trivial bits and leaf packages which can't break stuff for unstable, and
herd the more complex modules via experimental, to avoid breaking
unstable at all. There are some exceptions; we plan to keep gnome-session
2.22 in unstable/testing until 2.26.1 is released to avoid getting a
broken session saving in Debian.

People might wonder why we insist on hitting what would seem a dead horse
by first dealing with 2.24 and not 2.26 directly. The main reason is that
these packages had been ready for a long time, and were in good shape to
transition to testing quickly and with little pain. Preparing 2.26
directly would mean throwing away a lot of hours of packaging and
polishing effort, and it's not like we're releasing squeeze any time soon
anyway.

Enjoy the hopefully not too bumpy road to 2.26!


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[Johannes Rohr-2]

Thanks for the update,

Jordi Mallach <jordi@...> writes:


[...]

> Namedly, evolution-data-server is trying to trickle into testing,
> which is in turn holding the final bits: gnome-panel, nautilus and
> related packages, but we think this will be over soon.

[...]


Why do you need to have it in /testing/ before you upload the final
bits of GNOME 2.24? In fact, unless bug #520771 is fixed, this is not
going to happen, and do you really want to invest time into fixing a
bug into an obsolete version, which has already been fixed by upstream
in a newer release?

Thanks,

Johannes

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[Jean-Christophe Dubacq]

Jordi Mallach a écrit :

> First, the new versions of GLib and GTK+ were uploaded to unstable, and
> managed to transition to testing very easily. The rest of GNOME 2.24
> bits, which had been patiently waiting on experimental for months, has
> been uploaded with care not to disrupt any of the many transitions the
> Debian release team is currently dealing with. You can have a quick
> glance at how things are going in our 2.24 status page, but the summary
> is that most of GNOME 2.24 is in unstable, with a few notable exceptions
> which are held back by ongoing testing transitions. Namedly,
> evolution-data-server is trying to trickle into testing, which is in turn
> holding the final bits: gnome-panel, nautilus and related packages, but
> we think this will be over soon.

I tried to install gnome 2.24 from experimental+unstable to test a bit
more, but it's currently impossible: weird conflicts between serpentine
and other things, various python-gnome dependencies wanting to uninstall
everything gnomish, etc. Is there some canonical list of gnome packages
in an exploitable format for apt-get install command line somewhere?

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