Re: KDE packages (3.0.4 and 3.1)
On Sunday 06 October 2002 19:05, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> three things :-)
>
> a) Sorry....
> ...for the inconvenience about the Packages.gz file on the ftp server. I
> didn't know why I should create 8 subdirectories in a row just for a beta
> build and that I should have regenerated the Packages.gz file. As said, the
> KDE 3.1 beta2 was not correct anyway so I think this is a minor issue for
> now. more important is that it works for b) and c) correctly :-))
>
> b) KDE-3.0.4 Release
> I'm packaging up KDE 3.0.4 for both, sid and woody. Woody gives me a bit of
> a problem in kdelibs-data not installing the files in /etc/kde3 there, so
> if you have any idea why that is, please tell me :-). The woody release
> will include a backport of qt-3.0.5 from unstable and a fix in kdelibs that
> avoids the stretching of the ktipdialog with qt-3.0.5. At any rate, qt has
> been compiled with -no-xft to avoid application crashes under XFree 4.1, so
> if you're missing antialiasing and you're running XFree 4.2, take the
> version from unstable. Another minor change in kdebase will be that this
> ugly debian background logo will be away by default and be replaced with
> the usual debian logo in the logo field of the greeter in KDM. The default
> background wallpaper will be the default_blue.jpg as is stock with KDE.
> It's much more pleasant to the eyes and you don't want to scare away your
> users at the login screen already, do you ? :-)
>
> c) KDE 3.1 Release (and RC's)
> When I'm done with the 3.0.4 packages, I'll switch to HEAD again and help
> solve the remaining issues with the packages there so we can be able to
> provide RC packages when they are due and final packages, too, as soon as
> the KDE release date is coming up and the packagers get the packages
> provided by Dirk Mueller as usual.
>
> I hope you can live with that I'm struggling a bit, but being a Debian user
> since 3 weeks only I hope you can live with that I try to catch up for a
> week
Can live with that? I appreciate everything you do and have to be _thankful_!
Thankfull to all debian-kde developers, we can't stress that too often, if
you wouldn't do it your way we might not have packages at all!
BTW, I'm using current 3.1b2 packages and they are quite nice... looking
forward to the RC1 packages!
MfG
Franz Keferböck
>
> :-)
>
> Ralf
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