Re: Status of KDevelop 1.2
> The one and only solution to get KDevelop 1.2 running with potato and
> the current QT2 libraries is to package KDevelop 1.2 against QT1. And
> here is the second problem exist with the current KDE2 packages.
> The QT1 and QT2 libraries can not coexist on the same system :( The
> reason is to see in the missing support for the QT1 libraries by
> Debian, so QT1 never exist officially so we have not to worry about
> this...
> Packaging KDevelop 1.2 against QT1 make it impossible to make this
> package available from the Debian FTP server because of the license!
>
> You will now ask me what could be done now?
>
> + Repackage QT1 stuff so it will not conflict with current QT2 packages
umm... libqt1 does not conflict with libqt2. libqt1-dev DOES conflict wiht
libqt2-dev tho.
but either way, libqt1 is no longer a part of woody and for many reasons
shouldn't be. (1: licensing, 2: no packages use it, 3: upstream recommends
upgrading to qt 2.2 anyways)
> > BTW, the kde 1 and kde 2 debs have several conflicting .so. files and
> > headers - they don't really get along :(. I'm afraid running the two may
> > never really work with stock (rkrusty) debs. Its one of those situtations
> > where policy is sort of strangling us.
correct on this...
Ivan
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