:Debian.org: GNOME 2.8, Yes; Freeze Date Waiting for Infrastructure
Debian.org: GNOME 2.8, Yes; Freeze Date Waiting for Infrastructure Dec 1, 2004, 14 :30 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (5778 reads) (Other stories by Andreas Barth)
"After almost a month since the last update, the status of the release is as follows.
"After requests and a detailed proposal from the GNOME team, we accepted an upload of GNOME 2.8 into sid, and, via the usual mechanisms, into sarge. We should mention that the release team was running out of objections to GNOME 2.8 in unstable that the GNOME team hasn't satisfactorily addressed; this, and the fact that they have demonstrated good reaction times of late are the main reasons why we're approving it
despite the timing..."