Question about Gnome maintenance releases

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Thu Apr 13 05:39:03 UTC 2006


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Stephen Mirowski wrote:
> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
[...]
>>I know that each new version of Fedora Core includes the latest and
>>greatest Gnome release available at the time.  But, what about the
>>maintenance releases, such as 2.14.1?  Are the updates back ported
>>to the version of Gnome running in the latest Fedora Core release?
>>Will FC5 see the updates available in Gnome 2.14.1?
[...]
> Looking at past history, no, we will not be getting the new Gnome.
> Desktop environments are too complex to be released every two
> months.  You can do it yourself with Garnome (results very), or wait
> for FC6 which probably will include Gnome 2.16. 

Take a look in updates/testing/5 and you'll see a bunch of gnome
2.14.1 packages already.

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