Re: Debian galeon packages

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:34:16PM +0000, Mark Howard wrote:
> [Context:
>  Debian mozilla package is now compiled with gtk2. galeon1 does not
> support gtk2. galeon2 does but has not been officially released as
> stable. 
> I have suggested that since galeon2 is now quite stable we should put
> galeon2 into the Debian galeon package (for the Unstable distribution).
> A similar thing was done for gnome before it was released.
> Debian galeon package has over 140 bugs which will never get fixed in
> galeon1 - there are not enough people working on it. Most of these are
> resolved in galeon2. 
> ]
> 
> > My idea is to remake the Mozilla 1.3 package compiled for GTK1.
> 
> I need further opinions on this. My personal opinion is that this should
> not be done. 

I think that Mozilla 1.3 should be linked to GTK1.2 too. The release notes
say it's for GTK1.2 and it is also the default toolkit for Mozilla at this
time. In my opinion, using Galeon for a long time now, I should not be
forced back to the still maturing browsers at this moment. That is,
galeon2 (galeon-snapshot in Debian), ephiphany, phoenix, etc, since I would
be loosing a lot of features.
GTK1.2 is not very obsolete now GTK2 is here! I have recompiled
Mozilla 1.3 for GTK1.2 and build Galeon 1.2.9 against it, for the people
interested: deb http://people.spacelabs.nl/~paul browser-gtk1.2/

Note that the things said above are NOT Debian's opinion nor the ones
of the maintainers of galeon or mozilla. It's my opinion and the packages
are privately maintained.

Greetings,

Paul

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