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Debian Announces Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8
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.'"
And its scheduled for release at roughly the same time as Saddam Hussein
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
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."
Luke: What is it Obi-Wan ?
OWK: I felt a deep disturbance in the force. It was as if Debian decided to be more current with their packages.
Stable is for people who need an unchanging system (no, I'm not one of them), please leave it alone.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Situation now:
potato = obselete
woody = stable
sid = unstable
sarge = testing
Once sarge is declared stable,
woody = obselete
sid = unstable
sarge = stable
unknown = testing
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).
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.
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.
If it's a Debian Garden Gnome, you'll have to leave it in the back yard until it's weathered and outdated, and then move it to the front yard after it's demonstrated its stability for two years...