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Package: release-notes
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Hi!
Upgrading to Jessie introduces a major upgrade to Kontact, the KDE E-mail,
Calendar and Addressbook component. This major upgrade can need manual
intervention by users in some circumstances and it would be appropriate to
document this in the release notes.
The attached patch is a firat attempt to add this to the release notes. The
patch and the wiki page to which it directs weere prepared in collaboration
with #debian-qt-kde.
cheers
Stuart
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>From 1e300924ad88b1078a284690e6479ae6f3ba7cd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:25:19 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Add note for kontact upgrade
Upgrading to Jessie introduces a major upgrade to Kontact, the KDE E-mail,
Calendar and Addressbook component. This major upgrade can need manual
intervention by users in some circumstances.
---
en/issues.dbk | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk
index b2522fe..2690790 100644
--- a/en/issues.dbk
+++ b/en/issues.dbk
@@ -517,4 +517,23 @@ lxc.kmsg = 0
the “settings” icon.
</para>
</section>
+
+<section id="kde-kontact">
+ <!-- Wheezy to Jessie -->
+ <title>Migration to new KDE E-mail, Calendar and Contacts (Kontact)</title>
+ <para>
+ The Kontact Personal Information Management system has received a
+ major upgrade. The new version makes much greater use of metadata
+ indexing and each user's data must be migrated into these new indexes.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ E-mail, calendar events and addressbook contacts are automatically
+ migrated when the user logs in and the relevant component is started.
+ Some advanced settings such as e-mail filters and custom templates
+ require manual intervention. Further details and troubleshooting
+ suggestions are collected on the
+ <ulink
+ url="https://wiki.debian.org/KDE/Jessie/kontact";>Debian Wiki</ulink>.
+ </para>
+</section>
</chapter>
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2.1.4
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On 2015-01-19 13:02, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> Package: release-notes
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Hi!
>
> Upgrading to Jessie introduces a major upgrade to Kontact, the KDE E-mail,
> Calendar and Addressbook component. This major upgrade can need manual
> intervention by users in some circumstances and it would be appropriate to
> document this in the release notes.
>
> The attached patch is a firat attempt to add this to the release notes. The
> patch and the wiki page to which it directs weere prepared in collaboration
> with #debian-qt-kde.
>
> cheers
> Stuart
>
> [...]
Commited, thanks.
I took the liberty of doing a s/indexes/indices/.
~Niels
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