Re: complaints against the GNOME team

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Sam Morris <samrobots.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:14:47 +0200, Tshepang
Lekhonkhobe wrote:
>> * Sebastien was once declared heroic for
frantically packaging and
>> uploading GNOME 2.24 stuff after its release for
which I'm also
>> grateful, but then he refrained from uploading
Nautilus 2.24 to Sid,
>> choosing instead Experimental. I would really have
preferred that she
>> mentioned this on the mailing list and not just the
Debian changelog. So
>> what's still holding back Nautilus into entering
Sid?
>
> I'm assuming you're talking about nautilus 2.22 here.
One reason for the
> delay is that the upstream nautilus developers decided
to take over most
> of gnome-volume-manager's functionality, without
actually co-ordinating
> with the gnome-volume-manager developers. The result
was that both
> nautilus and gnome-volume-manager tried to handle the
mounting of disks,
> etc.
>
> I've been tracking the situation at <http://wiki.debian.org/
Gnome/
> nautilus_vs_gnome-volume-manager>. Most of these
issues have been fixed
> with the latest releases of gnome-volume-manager,
however there is still
> one bit of overlapping functionality: both nautilus and
gnome-volume-
> manager try to handle digital cameras. We should
probably patch this
> functionality out of one or the other.
>
> I think that nautilus 2.22.2 and gnome-volume-manager
2.22.5 are ready
> for unstable: I have been using them since they
appeared in experimental,
> and I really like GVFS and nautilus' new cluebar and
media handling
> functionality.

I saw you did quite a bit of work sorting this mess, whose
existence I
wasn't aware. Thanks much...


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