What's wrong with meta-gnome2 ?

[Cyril Brulebois]

Aaron M. Ucko <ucko at debian.org> (21/06/2009):
> [Copying the original poster because I'm not certain he's subscribed;
> apologies for any resulting duplication.]

[AFAICT, he is, since he replied in some threads previously. ;)]
> I agree that this message is not as clear as it could be.  In
> practice, I believe the reason for the delay is that
> gnome-desktop-environment has recently gained a conflict against
> gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs, which is however still a dependency of several
> packages.  Not all of these are necessarily problematic, but one
> certainly is: gnome-dbg (which also comes from meta-gnome2) depends on
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-dbg (from gst-plugins-base0.10), which
> historically depended on gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs.  Version 0.10.23-3
> has downgraded that to a suggestion, but only showed up as a
> low-priority upload on June 17, so as things stand I wouldn't expect
> the new meta-gnome2 to hit testing until at least the 27th.
> 
> See also http://bugs.debian.org/532469 .

Following Joss's mail to -release@, the following answer came:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/06/msg00216.html

Mraw,
KiBi.
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