On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 03:38 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 00:30 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > ... Which has nothing to do with building GNOME 2.10.x for FC4. > > Please don't turn this thread into a KDE vs. GNOME thread. > > Thank you for saying that Gilboa. Nothing could have been further from > my intentions that this turn into some kind of GNOME/KDE flamewar. I > suppose in retrospect that my use of "vs." in the subject line was bound > to be misinterpreted, but I meant it in the sense of "in comparison to" > and not in the sense of "fight to the death with". Oh... OK. I stand corrected then. > > Consider this: it really doesn't matter whether you use GNOME, KDE or > neither. Unlike other packages which are part of Fedora Core, GNOME does > not seem to be getting the standard bugfix/maintenance packages in > updates-released. And that seems odd, and worthy of asking why that is > the case. > > I don't begrudge KDE users the lovely Christmas present they got in > having 3.5 packages. Not in the least. That's shiny! But I did mean to > compare the two situations, in that an update like that (3.4.x to 3.5.x) > is generally unusual (unlike, say, an update from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2), > whereas updates from GNOME 2.10.0 to 2.10.1 to 2.10.2 are surely to be > expected. So where are they? I'd venture to guess that moving to 2.10.2 would require too many rebuilds and will risk major breakage. > > I can't currently find on the GNOME website what the changes were, but > googling "GNOME 2.10.1" and "GNOME 2.10.2" throws up some links that > suggest that small but reasonably annoying bugs were fixed in several > packages. > > I'm really posting this here for now because I'm not convinced bugzilla > is the most appropriate place to raise this issue ATM (for starters, > what component would I report it against?---there is no "GNOME in > general" component). In the fullness of time and after further > discussion I will of course lodge this in bugzilla. > Maybe you should post it in -devel? Gilboa
