Bug#648049: gnome: package priority between tomboy and gnote

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.11.2011 18:35, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 08.11.2011 17:14, schrieb Osamu Aoki:
>> Package: gnome
>> Version: 1:3.0+3
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Executive summary:
>>
>> Please change dependency for tomboy etc. to:
>>
>> gnote | tomboy (>= 1.6) | zim
>>
>
>
> I think this is worth considering, even more importantly because gnote
> 0.8 has a GTK 3 port. That said, gnote will pull the gtkmm packages, and
> I haven't checked yet, if other packages are already pulling that in.
> If not, we have to weigh that against the mono-* runtime size to be fair.
>
> What would also help to decide this, is some kind of feature matrix for
> tomboy and gnote and knowing if there is a smooth upgrade path from
> tomboy to gnote.
>
> Btw, one reason, why tomboy is part of gnome, is that in GNOME 3.0 it's
> a featured app [2], in 3.2 this is no longer the case.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> [1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/apps/3.0/3.0.0/sources/


Bringing the gnote and tomboy maintainers into the loop. Maybe they have 
comments on the above.

Cheers,
Michael

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