Gnome 2.6.1 and FC2

Stephen Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Sat May 1 15:54:25 UTC 2004


On Sat, 1 May 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:50:59PM -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote:
>> If the answer is "no", is it because of perceived destabilization or
>> because it takes time from new development? If it is the latter, would
>> it be possible for volunteer-packaged updates to be considered for
>> inclusion as official updates? (I believe that the FC2 Gnome is very
>> close to upstream, so it's likely that very little patch updating etc
>> would have to be done - is that a correct assumption? I can see that for
>> heavily patched packages would be more difficult for someone who is not
>> the original packager to package a sane update.)
>
>I think it's a bad idea to go down that road. Whole new Fedora Core releases
>are planned to be quite frequent; within each one, the packages should be as
>stable as possible.

I think that people who want 2.6.1 can make the packages and put them in 
fedora.us for cooking.


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