The short answer is
no, but as our
status page
easily reflects, there has been lots of work going on during the last two
weeks, once
etch's release unblocked the way to upload new versions
to unstable. This post intends to resume the trend of updating on the status
of GNOME in Debian, after we ended up deciding we'd
ship etch with 2.14
for a number of reasons, most notably some complications with the GTK 2.10
transition at that time. You'll be able to find other related news items
in
Debian GNOME team's
website.
What has the Debian GNOME team up to during the last 6 months? Our first
priority was to focus on unstable's GNOME 2.14 packages again, in an attempt
to fix any outstanding remaining bugs from our packaging, and get them in the
best shape possible to deliver a polished GNOME desktop for etch. I think
the result is really good, and Debian's default GNOME desktop is both very
usable and attractive. In parallel, the preparations for a complete set of
GNOME 2.16 packages continued in our Subversion repository and kept appearing,
little by little, in
experimental. The most visible consequence
of our 2.16 efforts translated into
nobse's
backport of 2.16 for etch,
which can be found in the corresponding
repository.
And then, with etch deep frozen and nearly ready to be released,
GNOME 2.18 was
released,
and of course the GNOME team didn't wait too much to start working on it.
Our current status is looking good: the Developer Platform is already
available in unstable, although buildd's are fighting the builds on various
architectures. When the dust settles (GTK 2.10's landing has generated quite
a big cloud; we have a
list of packages
that still haven't completed the GTK+ 2.10 transition), we'll be able to
prepare and upload the more complex Desktop components like the panel,
nautilus, evolution or control-center. Unstable users should probably be
seeing daily progress on this front, so keep an eye on your package
managers!
Although Debian 4.0 released with an
old version of GNOME, vast
amounts of time and work have been invested to release it with the necessary
backported fixes and enhancements. The newer GNOME versions have been
available in Debian official ftp archives in very reasonable timeframes; this
has only been possible thanks to the restless efforts of the (fortunately)
growing Debian GNOME team members: giskard, feedback, HE, lool, np237, slomo,
shaka, sjoerd, xaiki and not forgetting our incredible bug triager, svena.
Thanks!
On the
behind the scenes department, it's a pleasure to report
that Lo c Minier and Jordi Mallach very recently joined the
GNOME Foundation's board of
advisors in representation of the Debian Project, replacing
Matthew Garrett, who has been
representing us for the last few years until he left the project. Thanks,
Matthew!
The Debian Python Modules Team is 
And while I was on it, I thought I could do the same for the GNOME and GStreamer teams:
(hint: pox-guest and piotr in python-modules are the same person)
