gnome-2.4 per sid

[Alessio Dessi]

per chi fosse interessato hanno messo su un repositorey per G2.4


buon divertimento a tutti :-)

Hello,

Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Packaging 2.4 take exactly one day. We don't need 2 months to push
> 2.4 in unstable.

and was right.

Josselin Mouette <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org> answered:
> Debian is not about providing crappy packages in one day. We are
> committed to provide a high-quality distribution, and it of course
> requires high-quality packages. Not one-day packages.

and was right.


But lots of people wants to play with Gnome 2.4 and its wonderful
gnome-about application so I did it.

I coordinated myself here:
  http://www.entrouvert.be/~fred/gnome-2.4/gnome-2.4-summary.html

(list created from
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/rninstallation.html)

And produced debs (only for i386) that are available with:
  deb http://apt.bxlug.be/ gnome2.4-sid/

The process was to download current Debian package and current Gnome
release and to apply patches from the first to the second.

Random notes:

 - built against XFree86 4.3 from experimental
 - not Debian-quality packages
 - upgrade fails; need to run apt-get -f install once to correct some
   overwriting files
 - tries not to diverge from sid packages but:
   - librsvg now depends on libcroco (I thought it was necessary)
   - libbonobo creates both libbonobo and bonobo-activation packages
   - control-center builds fontilus and I put themus in a separate
     package
 - sources are available on http://apt.bxlug.be/gnome2.4-sid/sources
   but my upload rate is low so I sometimes only uploaded the .diff.gz
   and not the upstream .tar.gz
 - Gnome 2.4 feels faster on my computer and I'm happy with it


Regards,

        Frederic