Re: KDE debs building
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On Monday 16 September 2002 5:53 am, Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
> söndagen den 15 september 2002 17.35 skrev Ralf Nolden:
> > as some of you got to know until now, I switched from SuSE to Debian this
> > week - - and directly hit the fact that building debs from CVS would work
> > best for me to have it working the right way (tm). Now, I got into
> > working with Chris lately and we try to fix the issues one by one soon
> > now so that everyone can build debs himself but more important, provide
> > debs for KDE constantly that work, where also most importantly betas,
> > RC's and finals are provided by the day that the packages are build and
> > work optimal on Debian.
>
> I have some experience of packaging KDE into debs, and I think it would be
> great if we could combine our efforts.
>
> My KDE3.1-beta packaging was not originally meant for distribution to
> others, but it appears to be quite popular judging on the number of
> downloads I got (I have 123 downloads of kdelibs from my machine, and there
> are a
> mirrors....), so I am thinking of making the packaging both better, more
> versatile and more fine-grained.
>
> My main interest is just something that works, and since the debian KDE
> packagers have announced that they are not interested in packaging KDE
> beta, and have said that they are starting their packaging efforts first
> when the final version is out, I aimed at packaging just beta versions and
> early releases. I don't think it is such a bad idea that the main packagers
> work on refining the final product, and are not bothered with beta versions
> when they come.
>
I'm sorry that just isn't true. KDE HEAD has been kept up to date as much as
possible. People have been able to build packages for 3.1 for the last few
months. I could check the dates if you are interested. We haven't provided
binary packages because a) they take up a lot of room and b) calc has been
busy making sure that 3.0.x is working, bab has been working on koffice 1.2
and everyone else has been making sure that HEAD works. We have never said
that we will start for on 3.1 debs once 3.1 has been released.
> Actually, what I really think is that by providing packaging of KDE betas,
> the packaging problems can be found at an early stage, making it much
> easier and less troublesome to fast provide a good final version for those
> who don't want surprises (like with libpng this spring).
>
> -- Karolina
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David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
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