Stable software, which is unstable.

cyprinus · 2008-04-01 16:24:06

We have the latest gnome has been released, but it's not stable in Archlinux. I'm wondering what gnome from www.gnome.org and gnome in archlinux repository have in common - according to stability? Why software that is released as a final version, which is actually stable, doesn't hit the main repository? What's wrong with porting? I am not accusing anyone of speed, i am just curious about such issue.

Misfit138 · 2008-04-01 16:48:48

cyprinus wrote:

We have the latest gnome has been released, but it's not stable in Archlinux. I'm wondering what gnome from www.gnome.org and gnome in archlinux repository have in common - according to stability? Why software that is released as a final version, which is actually stable, doesn't hit the main repository? What's wrong with porting? I am not accusing anyone of speed, i am just curious about such issue.

Porting? Do you actually mean patching?
Why not just get 2.22 from [unstable] ? edit: [testing]

Last edited by Misfit138 (2008-04-02 01:10:51)

alex_anthony · 2008-04-01 20:35:04

2.22 is in [testing] isn't it?
It's available, just not by default so bugs can be ironed out in the packaging and waiting for some other (gcc I think) updates to hit the main repos

tomk · 2008-04-01 20:37:15

Any major upstream release will go to our testing repo first, regardless of how stable it is considered to be. That's just good practice for any distro.

Misfit138 · 2008-04-02 01:10:22

alex_anthony wrote:

2.22 is in [testing] isn't it?
It's available, just not by default so bugs can be ironed out in the packaging and waiting for some other (gcc I think) updates to hit the main repos

[testing]. Right you are.

zodmaner · 2008-04-04 20:05:07

...and I won't call Gnome 2.22 stable.

Arch Linux

#1 2008-04-01 16:24:06

Stable software, which is unstable.

#2 2008-04-01 16:48:48

Re: Stable software, which is unstable.

#3 2008-04-01 20:35:04

Re: Stable software, which is unstable.

#4 2008-04-01 20:37:15

Re: Stable software, which is unstable.

#5 2008-04-02 01:10:22

Re: Stable software, which is unstable.

#6 2008-04-04 20:05:07

Re: Stable software, which is unstable.

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