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Re: On the matter of Qt packaging



"Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty@earthlink.net> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:12:17PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote:
>> 
>> Qt is not an appropriate "teaching" package. It is too important. Give it
>> up to a full time, experienced maintainer, and teach him on some other
>> package.
>
> There are over 3 different people activly working on Qt at this point in time.
> Before any packages will be uploaded all of us have to agree that everything
> is correct.  Then the packages will be placed up on a web site for public
> testing.  There will be at least 2 key packages that will be tagged for
> testing.  The new Qt packages will have to be installed and these packages
> will have to successfully build using the new packages and run.  One of
> these packages will be kdelibs, and the other(s) will have to be non-KDE
> applications/libraries.  If any problems occur we lather/rinse/repeat.
>
> I think this should satisfy the requirements whether or not the actual
> maintainer is newbie or not.

Sounds good to me.  Are there plans to create a debian-qt mailing list
(since debian-kde is user-oriented) to coordinate the effort?

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