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Debian Announces Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8

Posted by timothy on from the catching-up-is-the-best-revenge dept.

El Cubano writes "A recent posting to the debian-devel-announce mailing list announces that Sarge will release with GNOME 2.8. From the announcement: 'After requests and a detailed proposal from the GNOME team, we accepted an upload of GNOME 2.8 into sid, and, via the usual mechanisms, into sarge. We should mention that the release team was running out of objections to GNOME 2.8 in unstable that the GNOME team hasn't satisfactorily addressed; this, and the fact that they have demonstrated good reaction times of late are the main reasons why we're approving it despite the timing.'"

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  1. Re:KDE by coekie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actualy reading the announcement would have answered your question: "In the meantime, we were also asked why we decided to go with KDE 3.2, and if it would be possible to go with KDE 3.3 instead. The main reason is that KDE 3.3 in unstable started with some RC bugs, and there was no proposal from the KDE team how to proceed. The door is only closed, but not locked for KDE 3.3. We are still open for proposals how to sort the KDE 3.3 issues out, and there has been some productive discussion of late about that - but no final decision yet."

  2. Re:Anonymous coward is confused by peterpi · · Score: 5, Informative
    The releases of Debian go through the following stages:

    • Unstable
    • Testing
    • Stable
    • Dead


    And for most users, at any one point in time the Unstable one offers the best tradeoff between features and stability. The current situation is that Sid is unstable, Sarge is testing and Woody is Stable.

    Real Soon Now, they'll all shuffle along one, Woody will die and Sarge will become stable. I run sarge on my home and work machines and it's completely rock solid.

  3. Re:x.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Debian team will begin integrating X.Org into Unstable when Sarge is released. Except, they'll try and do it modularly, instead of monolithically...read more http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00431. html.

  4. Re:Anonymous coward is confused by Todesmetall · · Score: 5, Informative
    So, sid will remain unstable and a new name for the testing branch will have to be decided (unless I missed something and that's already happened).
    The release after sarge will be called etch.
  5. Re:Actually, they switch names... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative
    Uhmm... no. Sarge remains sarge, woody remains woody and sid remains sid. The new unstable gets a new name. I believe the pre-woody stables were called potato, slink, and hamm respectively

    unstable will always be called sid. i.e.:

    stable -> slink
    testing -> potato
    unstable -> sid

    stable ->potato
    testing -> woody
    unstable ->sid

    stable ->woody
    testing -> sarge
    unstable ->sid

    stable ->sarge
    testing -> etch
    unstable -> sid
    sid never changes.