Re: Feasibility of private/unofficial KDE 3.5 packages
On 2010-05-09, Alejandro Exojo <suy@badopi.org> wrote:
> First, if I understood correctly, Qt3 and kdelibs 3.5 will still be around for
> some time. Am I right? I still see them on unstable, and I suppose they will
> be on the archive unless all remaining KDE 3 packages are removed.
we don't plan to ship qt3 with squeeze+1.
> And what about adding a suffix to the 3.5 applications? I suppose this will be
> more work, but also feels like the proper way to do it.
a prefix/suffix to the 3.5 apps that clashes is I think the proper way
to do it.
> Finally, how realistic do you think is all of this? I don't have the skills
> (nor the time to acquire them) to even think about "infrastructure" stuff
> (desktop, kdm, libraries), but I have some rusty knowledge of packaging KDE
> applications, and luckily for me, it's just 2 or 3 of the old ones that I
> need.
If you are a 3-5 people willing to get your hands dirty with autotools
and stuff, I think you could pull it off.
/Sune
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