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GNOME 2 To Hit Debian Unstable This Sunday
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 :)'"
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.
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.
It has been announced that this will happen when 3.1 is released shortly.
e bian/sid ./ ./
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/D
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]
Ok, I just checked my local mirror, and it's up! On the other hand the gnome-panel is still at 1.4.
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.