On Friday 07 May 2010 21.52:09 Mike Bird wrote:
> Debian already has done all the work and maintains all
> the infrastructure. It's vastly less work for Debian
> to rebuild KDE 3.5 when a library changes rather than
> force users to try to create a new build infrastructure.
Nobody said you'd have to recreate the packaging to use KDE 3.5.
Take the last 3.5 packages, import them into the vcs of your choice, start
hacking. At least at first it's probably not much work for you to get the
packages building with the current libraries from squeeze/sid.
Change paths and package names so the packages don't conflict with the
current KDE4 packages. Then announce the packages are available. Then work
with the other users to continue maintaining them.
It's that easy.
All Ana and the other packagers are saying: they're not going to do it, YOU
have to do it. If you do it properly, nobody will prevent you from
uploading the packages to Debian so they can be part of the official
release. If you aim for squeeze, get working FAST because time's probably
nearly up.
Of course, once they're released: be prepared to maintain the packages. The
security team will heavily stomp on your fingers if you don't fix security
bugs. Users will expect konqueror 3.5 to render most webpages correctly
even as the HTML/CSS/... standards evolve. etc. etc. THAT's where the work
is: you'll not only be offering 3.5 packages, you'll also be upstream
maintainer of KDE 3.5.
cheers
-- vbi
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