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Vamp898

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Whats going on with GNOME Shell

Today my gnome-shell package was flagged as out of date beceuase gnome-shell-2.29 was released

first i thought, ok just upgrade to 2.29

then i recognized that gnome-shell-2.29 and all its dependencies like gir-repository, mutter, gjs and so are in 2.29 too

these 2.29 packages needs GNOME 2.29 to work and so the [gnome-unstable] repository

Either is me with the wrong understanding of the PKG guidelines or the maintainers of mutter, gjs, gir-* and so on give a shit about the PKGBUILD guidelines

My GNOMEShell package will stay on 2.28 beceause GNOME 2.28 which is in [extra] is the latest stable version of GNOME

gnome-shell-2.29 and its dependencies need [gnome-unstable] and so i wont upgrade my gnome-shell package to 2.29

im very sad that the other maintainers does not follow the stable GNOME version and so gnome-shell-2.28 does not compile anymore but thats not my fault at all so plz dont mask my package as outdated.

wonder

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Re: Whats going on with GNOME Shell

expect gnome-shell in gnome-unstable too

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Vamp898

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Re: Whats going on with GNOME Shell

gnome-shell in [gnome-unstable] would be a nice idea but i think that the only existing PKGBUILD of gnome-shell should be follow [extra] and not [gnome-unstable]

The most users would like to use GNOME 2.28 and not GNOME 2.29 and maybe they want to have the GNOME Shell which was released with GNOME 2.28

wonder

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Re: Whats going on with GNOME Shell

gnome-shell in [gnome-unstable] would be a nice idea but i think that the only existing PKGBUILD of gnome-shell should be follow [extra] and not [gnome-unstable]

The most users would like to use GNOME 2.28 and not GNOME 2.29 and maybe they want to have the GNOME Shell which was released with GNOME 2.28

i'm totally agree with you.

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Vamp898

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Re: Whats going on with GNOME Shell

I hope that the maintainer of the packages on which gnome-shell depends see that too and downgrad to 2.28 again as long 2.28 is in [extra]. There is always the ability to create a $pkgname-unstable/beta/git/whatever package on AUR

Last edited by Vamp898 (2010-02-23 19:10:32)