Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[David Wright <david.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 12:55 schrieb Jens Siebert:
> Hi there,
>
> what version of GNOME will be integrated into Suse 10.1? Currently there
> still is 2.12.x in the factory-tree but 2.14 is currently in the final
> stages of development.
>
> Greetings
>
> Jens Siebert
>

I would guess that, because it hasn't been finalised before 10.1 reached Beta 
status 2.14 will have to wait for 10.2, or be an unsupported package like 
2.12 is with 10.0.

Don't forget the SUSE guys have to do a lot of integration work to make sure 
it works reliably within the framework of SUSE Linux, it isn't just a case of 
taking the 2.14 source and compiling it and bundling it. There needs to be a 
lot of internal testing, re-configuration etc. before it would be ready for 
beta testing, and the beta testing is now on Beta 5, and you can see the 
problems that throwing the new package manager in at a late stage...

If 2.14 doesn't give an overwhelming security reason to upgrade immediately, 
then it will, I assume, have to wait until it can be safely put into the 
development production line for 10.2.

Forcing it into 10.1 would probably push back the release date unacceptably.

Obviously I'm not on the development team, so I can't give an official answer, 
but that is the logical situation for 12.4...

Dave
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