[tech] Re: [wheel] Re: [ucc] Mussel

[Nick Bannon]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 03:50:55PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
[...]
> The maintainer Steve McIntyre <stevem at chiark.greenend.org.uk> is "about
> done", as of February 5th 2001, but I still don't see anything in
> unstable uploads... ::-( Mail him.

Yay! it's just appeared in unstable. This should flow through to
testing (which is what mussel's mostly running) in due course, no point
rushing it if you've already got it compiled, [ORU].

There's interesting reading in /usr/share/doc/netpbm - particularly the
HISTORY file and the copyright file. Looks like the MPEG code in
particular came out of the UCB tools ; the new package conflicts with
them.

In other news, I've put the galeon web browser on mussel, as packaged at ;
http://galeon.euber.net/galeon/

It depends on Mozilla 0.7 as packaged by Progeny, so I imagine there'll
be a Mozilla 0.8 version along soon enough. It also needed some more
recent GNOME packages including libgnomeui33 (?) . Packages are in
/services/tmp/debian for the time being.

It's quite a nice interim solution - try it. It uses the mozilla base,
with a simplified web-browser-only UI layer. It's also got crash
recovery, so when it does fail (less often than earlier mozilla's...)
you can go back to the same pages/forms you were on.

Mozilla 0.7 is also significantly nicer than M18, which is still the
official Debian release. ('tis a pain, Debian was a pretty prompt way
to track Mozilla between about M14 and M18, IIRC) If it doesn't start
up for you, remove your ~/.mozilla directory - you probably have one
from an earlier version which it doesn't like...

Nick.

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