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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 :)'"

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  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: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.