Re: Pushing kde4 into testing
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:26:25AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:53:37PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > >> alternately, even though debian-edu focuses on KDE, what about
> > >> putting in a "libqt-perl | libgnome2-perl" dependency, and fall back
> > >> to the GNOME frontend if libqt-perl is not available?
> >
> > I believe that the _first_ item in a list of multiple recommendations
> > must be satisfiable.
> >
> > In other words, I suspect above approach might not work for getting the
> > package into testing and stable, even though it works with apt-get and
> > aptitude.
>
> i'm not so sure on that; we should find out for sure.
still don't know for absolutely sure, but when i asked in #debian-devel irc
channel, it sounded like that would actually be fine.
> since i don't want to dive into debconf code, i re-wrote the code to use
> libgnome2-perl as a fallback. uploading to skolelinux repository for
> testing. if it works, i'll need a sponsor to get it into debian.
seems to work for me.
anyone available to sponsor an upload of debian-edu-install? how about
debian-edu-artwork too, while we're at it? :)
live well,
vagrant
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