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The GNOME Desktop and developer platform version 2.12.2 is out

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-11-30 18:32. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of The GNOME
Desktop and Developers platform version 2.12.2

This is the second point release of the stable 2.12 series of GNOME and
a lot of hard work has gone into making it more enjoyable for our users
and developers. A list of news can be found below.

The tarballs can be found here:

Platform:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.12/2.12.2/sources/

Desktop:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.12/2.12.2/sources/

Bindings:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.12/2.12.2/sources/

Please file bugs and feature requests in GNOME Bugzilla at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

Sincerely,
The GNOME release team

Changelog Here

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What should Ubuntu do?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-12-01 07:11.

I know this is not the right forum to ask for changes. But since it is people who know the inner workings of gnome, you can maybe shed some light on the issues.

The problem is that Ubuntu doesn't upgrade to Gnome minor releases; 2.12.1 never comes into it.
So my question is how many of these bug fixes comes into the next major stable version (2.14.0)?

The way I see bugs could be tested like this, is to put them into a 'regression' state. This would be all bugs which are not tied to a specific version.
Then the developers could go through all bugs with this flag, and either mark it deprecated, fixed or unfixed for each release they are making. Just to make sure that no regressions have been made.

Is this already done (in that case, Ubuntu doesn't use the full potential of it)?
Is there better way to do it? Like have a full functionality regression suite?

From Ubuntu's point of view it looks like minor releases is just wast of time. I really don't hope this is true, so it would be nice to get these issues clarified :)

Breezy had GNOME 2.12.1,

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-12-01 11:22.

Breezy had GNOME 2.12.1, when it released.
GNOME's release schedule: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen
Ubuntu's release schedule: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseSchedule

Nobody said it's a waste of time, please read http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2005-December/058676.html - there is more sense to it.

If you're not sure, that things are true, why do you say them and why do you knowingly choose the wrong forum?

How can you overlook this?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-12-01 11:10.

Oh please this is just NOT true. Check "about gnome" in your breezy GNOME installation. It clearly says version 2.12.1 and I'm sure you'll see an update to 2.12.2 soon at least in the official backports.