Re: debian/ in GNOME CVS

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:18:09AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Christian Marillat - GNOME's Debian packaging dude - is kindly helping us
> with the platform alpha by packaging it all up for release into sid. This
> means that we'll have a lot of Debian users with immediate access to
> binaries for testing, bug reporting, general complaining, etc. This is
> assuredly a Good Thing. :)

Does this really achieve any goal (releasing into sid)? The list of
packages proposed for the alpha platform release is a bunch of libraries
and no applications. Now, I realise that people can probably go crazy
then building stuff from CVS since Jacob and others are porting like
crazy on some fundamental stuff and others may soon follow. But, by
default there's nothing to see if you aren't an active porter at the
moment.

My worry here is that something which is really "libraries for
developers only and is for API stability to help porting begin" may be
misinterpreted as a GNOME 2.0 pre-release or something equally
confusing if people get it by default the next time they do a
"run-magic-program-that-installs-stuff-from-the-net-on-my-Debian-box".
Are we ready to handle that kind of PR?

I guess if all of Havoc's patches to allow parallel installs have gone
in it won't cause too much grief. But at least package the
message-of-doom (or a slightly more correct version now that it is meant
to build and things won't conflict with 1.0 series stuff) into the docs.

Malcolm

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