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On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 20:08 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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> > It's probably a bit late now (unless we want to wait yet another few |
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> > months), but tying this to a profile upgrade might have been a more |
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> > practical solution. 2007.0, or now 2007.1. Old profiles would stick |
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> > with the old expat, and new ones would get the new one. People are |
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> > generally prepared for at least a /bit/ of extra upheaval when they do |
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> > profile upgrades, and that would have made the PR a bit easier as well, |
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> > since that's a natural time for it. |
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> Sounds good to me. To complement what Mart (leio) said earlier, a good |
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> timing for Gnome is either 2.16.3 or 2.18.0/1, the latter not being due |
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> for stable in for another few weeks. |
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> My opinion: the sooner the better. But having new stages for new |
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> installs so that users don't have to find out about revdep-rebuild the |
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> minute they finish their install is probably the best way to go. |
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> The profile idea looks ideal. |
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No. It would have been ideal if we would have done it with the release. |
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Now, it means people *will* need to use revdep-rebuild as soon as they |
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install their shiny new system if they use binary packages. People |
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coming from stage3 would be fine, of course. |
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