What about SLiM and tint2?

[Loïc Martin]

rent0n wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to know, if possible, the reasons why SLiM will not be 
> present in the karmic release, since the SLiM team found a new mantainer 
> and developpers and the project is still going on.

Do you have some links pointing to a prepared Ubuntu package and some 
refusal by Ubuntu developers?

> I also would like to know why the new stable release of tint2 (0.7) has 
> not been included in karmic instead of the old 0.6 version.

Looking at tint2 version in Karmic, 0.6.0-1, the lack of an -#ubuntu# at 
the end means that the package is maintained entirely in Debian, and 
then synced into Ubuntu.

Debian has tint2 0.7.1-1, however their changelog shows that it was only 
uploaded to Debian after the 1st of July, which is past Karmic Debian 
Import Freeze (DIF), which according to 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule was June 25th.

tint2 could have been manually synced from Debian past that date if you 
(or anyone else) had requested a sync in Launchpad (checking first that 
it builds and runs fine in Karmic, and providing the build logs or, 
better, a PPA link) - up to Feature Freeze, which was August 27th

tint 0.7.1-1 (or any newer version) will be synced from Debian at the 
beginning of Ubuntu 10.04 development cycle. If there are newer versions 
released around 2 month or less from 10.04 release, you might want to 
have a look at 10.04 release schedule and request manual syncs in Launchpad.

Loïc