Hi Randy,thank you for sharing your experience with compiling kate for Debian Wheezy. I believe that this really could be of value to someone else, even if you did not end up with a proper backport so far.
On 25.10.2014 17:19, Randy Kramer wrote:
most things seem to work--in particular, the bug fix that I needed (which is incorporated in version 4.11.n) is present and works!
If this bugfix was the only reason why you tried to backport kate, did you ever consider to only backport the bugfix? I mean this might be much easier to achieve. And besides that, Debian backports should rather not be used to fix bugs if they could also get fixed in Debian stable...
As we are at it already: What bug is it? Does an upstream bug report exist? Does a Debian bug report exist?
All the best, Micha