Re: future of GNOME Flashback and GNOME-2-related packages?

Paul Wise <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.gtk-gnome
Message-ID <CAKTje6GxjAnWfstnPYLWqg1Wny5518D5Qf-nT9U=6s95AJ1Ayg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:

> We've had Shell in two stable releases now, and we now have both Cinnamon
> and MATE available for fans of the traditional desktop. Is it time to
> be more aggressive about removing gnome-flashback and its dependencies,
> maybe with transitional packages to upgrade (sidegrade?)  to one of the
> GNOME forks for people who want that?

I would say don't add transitional packages but do add information
about this to the release notes.

BTW, is gnome-shell classic mode still going to be available upstream?
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