On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:05:29AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > I guess you didn't understand the bug.  If you had installed
> > gnome-themes-common a long time ago, and now tried to upgrade to stable,
> > it fails to work.  There is a simple solution, which for some reason
> > hasn't yet been implemented.
> 
> If you upgrade to stable, it's from oldstable (etch), but it doesn't have
> gnome-themes-common, so I wonder what the bug is. You should remove packages
> that don't exist in the archive anymore before dist-upgrading, so at best this
> would be a wishlist, and wontfix since we won't push an update to stable for
> such a thing IMHO.

I think gnome-themes-common predates etch.  I'm not sure how old a distro
has to be to include 2.14, nor whether we support upgrading from such a
release directly to lenny or even etch.  I find it very sad that a bug
like this gets closed by virtue of being ignored for so long.  Don't you?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox                          Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."



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