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GNOME 2 To Hit Debian Unstable This Sunday

Posted by timothy on from the you-have-x-many-hours dept.

steveha writes "Colin Walters announced that GNOME 2 will go into Sid (the unstable branch of Debian) this Sunday. Good experimental packages have been available for a while, but there wasn't any upgrade from GNOME 1.x; you lost all your settings. Now there are transition scripts, and the Debian GNOME 2 developers would like people to test the transition scripts as much as possible before Sunday... to quote Colin Waters, '...if you haven't helped us out by testing them already, then you will be forced to anyways this Sunday :)'"

20 comments

  1. sweet! by standsolid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I love seeing Debian's packages updated in such a timely manner, like they always do.

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  2. Shocking by I'm+not+a+script · · Score: 1

    First xfree86 4.2, now this... It must take a lot of effort to be on the bleeding edge. Kudos to the debian developers !

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  3. Alright... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is fine well and good, but when will KDE 3.x get into sid? This was one of the reasons I moved away from Debian in the first place (to gentoo).

    Who knows, maybe I'll go back if Debian developers get their act together and make unstable actually bleeding edge like it used to be.

    1. Re:Alright... by smcv · · Score: 5, Informative

      when will KDE 3.x get into sid?

      When gcc 3.2 becomes the default. gcc 3.2 breaks binary compatibility for C++, KDE is C++, so the maintainers don't want to have to re-release KDE 3 to be compatible with gcc3.2-compiled libraries if they could just delay it a bit and upload a working version.

    2. Re:Alright... by fault0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Alright, but why didn't they just release binaries for KDE 3.0 when it came out eight months ago (april 3rd). Sure, a month or two is fine wait, but eight months isn't, especially for unstable. All it has gotten a number of people disgruntled with Debian.

      I used to use unstable, but now I'm running LFS.

    3. Re:Alright... by akc · · Score: 3, Informative

      It has been announced that this will happen when 3.1 is released shortly.

      You can always get kde 3.0.4 by putting the following in your sources.list

      deb http://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/De bian/sid ./
      deb http://people.debian.org/~bab/kde3 ./
      deb http://people.debian.org/~njordan/ kde3.0/

      [Replace uk with country code on the first line (and I can't loose the space in Debian on this post - it should not be there). The last two lines are related apps like kdevelop etc]

    4. Re:Alright... by Kidbro · · Score: 2

      it came out eight months ago (april 3rd)

      02-10-27 - 02-04-03 = 00-06-24

      Seven, maybe... but definately not eight.

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    5. Re:Alright... by fault0 · · Score: 2

      April (clost to april 1st) -May-June-July-August-September-October-November (close to nov 1st)

      that's how I counted.

      april - 1
      may - 2
      june 3
      july 4
      august 5
      september 6
      october 7
      november 8

      Yeah, this is incorrect.

    6. Re:Alright... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      They were going to with 3.0, but then there was some setbacks and such and 3.1 was around the corner. So they waited for 3.1 since it had some bug fixes. But then 3.1 was incompatible with 3.2, so they waited until 3.2 is out. Now 3.2 is out and they will probably do it when 3.2 because the standard compiler for sid. They have to transition a lot of c++ packages. Some of them dont always compile with 3.2. RedHat and company probably had to patch the c++ programs themselves.

    7. Re:Alright... by 10Ghz · · Score: 2

      "When gcc 3.2 becomes the default."

      And before GCC 3.2 they said "KDE3 will be in Unstable after we release Xfree4.2. Should be really soon now". FYI: they said that MONTHS ago! Now they have Xfree 4.2, but no KDE. I wonder what excuse they'll think of after they switch to GCC 3.2...

      Well, I have already decided to vote with my feet. Gentoo, here I come!

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    8. Re:Alright... by fault0 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      > You're a fucking moron.

      And you're a moron for not seeing tbe last line of grandparent post, dumbass.

  4. WTF? by leviramsey · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You mean to say that Debian was slow to put GNOME2 in their distro? I'm so surprised.

    1. Re:WTF? by reaper20 · · Score: 4, Informative

      It's been in experimental since the release of Gnome2.

      It's been waiting there while the Debian/Gnome guys figured out the transition scripts from 1.4 -> 2.0. Feel free to help out.

      You'd be pretty pissed off if you were happily running 1.4 and one day it's 2.0 and all your desktop settings are gone, so, IMO they made the right decision.

    2. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      You mean to say that Debian was slow to put GNOME2 in their distro? I'm so surprised.


      You mean to say that GNOME2 will actually compile now? I'm so surprised.

  5. My what a dangerous Gnome! by hackwrench · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd say Gnome was unstable if it hit Debian.

  6. soooo. by /dev/trash · · Score: 1

    When I do my apt-get on Monday Morning will I get Gnome2?

    1. Re:soooo. by SonOfSengaya · · Score: 1

      If you use Sid/unstable you'll get it, I think.
      btw, do gnome1.x applications run with gnome2?

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  7. It's up, but... by DRnetman86 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ok, I just checked my local mirror, and it's up! On the other hand the gnome-panel is still at 1.4.