[ITP] glitz-0.4.4

[Jörg Schaible]

Corinna Vinschen wrote on Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:54 AM:

> On Feb  2 10:37, J?rg Schaible wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote on Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:22 AM:
>> 
>>> On Feb  1 20:46, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>>>> Glitz is an optional backend for cairo (the graphics rendering
>>>> library, which is a gtk+-2.8 requirement).  It's already in Debian
>>>> testing, just needs a GTG review (and there's no gtk-doc this time!
>>>> :-))
>>> 
>>> For the records, I just uploaded this package without having noticed
>>> that you're talking about debian-testing.  Debian-testing does not
>>> mean it's already in a distro.  I'll let this one slip through now,
>>> but in future, debian-testing will require votes, as does
>>> debian-unstable. 
>> 
>> Available for Gentoo as stable package:
>> http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=glitz
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-01/msg00248.html

I don't wanna argue here, but I think you really misinterpret the stable mark in Gentoo. If something is marked as such, it is really meant to. E.g. neither kde 3.5.x, Firefox 1.5.x, OpenSSH 4.3 nor gcc 4.x (they switched one month ago from 3.3.x to 3.4.x) is currently marked as stable  - in despite to other distros. And - as Gentoo user - I really hate if something breaks my system, too.

- Jörg