proposal for the KDE 3.3 transition

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

hi all,

  the purpose of this mail is to explain to the Release Team the
  (straightforward) proposal that the KDE Team has come up with to
  ensure a safe transition of KDE 3.3 to sarge.

  in a nutshell, the intention is the same as that of some weeks ago:
  let it happen all at once.

  to address Steve's concerns that some external factor (e.g., a
  lately reported serious bug) could affect the transition, we plan on
  uploading a new kdelibs 3.3.1-2 package that will conflict with
  versions << 4:3.3.0 of all the official KDE metapackages (1).

      (1) which are: kdeaccessibility kdeaddons kdeadmin kdeartwork
      kdebase kdebindings kdeedu kdegames kdegraphics kde-i18n
      kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdepim kdesdk kdetoys kdeutils kdewebdev.
  
  then, britney will allow either all of these packages to enter, or
  none, since allowing kdelibs alone would make the rest uninstallable
  in sarge.

				* * *

  now for the verbosity and the details: we are aware that such
  conflicts only address the transition and not the whole
  user-can-end-with-mixed-installed-versions issue. as we have
  previously stated, we prefer to deal with that problem later,
  probably post-sarge.

  having the transition done this way: (a) won't make the situation of
  KDE in sarge any worse dependency-wise and (b) permits us to be
  confident that the transition is possible, given the good shape of KDE
  builds ATM.

				* * *
  
  when can the transition happen? well, once we get RMs' approval to the
  plan, we will upload kdelibs 3.3.1-2 with urgency=medium, and then
  some RM will have to (or instruct us to) close #266478 ("new kdelibs
  should not enter testing alone").

  other than that, see migration-status.txt [1] if interested, to see
  the overall situation of KDE packages' builds.

    [1] http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/migration-status.txt

				 * * *
  
  thanks.

  -- dato, on behalf of the KDE Team.

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Adeodato Simó
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