Re: KMail and Debian packages
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On Wednesday 21 November 2001 19:43, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> HELL NO!
Whew ... First of all, why don't you cool down a little? It's not
that I want to hurt you or even say that you did something wrong. I
just want to talk about ways of making this work better.
> that would mean that if I make a minor fix (say a typo
> fix in the description or something that is Debian specific but
> with no code change) that every single app would need to be rebuilt
> and uploaded.
Okay. I get it. But wouldn't it be possible to, say, let KMail depend
on only a major KDE release (2.2.1, for example) and not on a single
Debian sub-release of it (-x)?
> > Actually, right now the problem is that KMail hasn't gotten
> > through to testing yet but if the current KMail package depended
> > on kdelibs=2.1.2 and kdebase=2.1.2 then these upgrades would be
> > held back, too, right?
>
> How about this everyone... if you want something stable..use
> stable and don't use testing.
Well, you know as well as everybody else that potato (stable) is
quite outdated now. And for a desktop machine that's not really
mission critical testing is _the_ perfect choice of all distributions
because you can always be close to the cutting edge while still
having a considerably stable (which means basically usable) system
and not having to compile everything yourself.
The real problem here, though, is not that users complain about their
system being a little unstable but that the developers of KMail are
being bug-spammed. So there _is_ a problem that deserves fixing
(IMHO) so maybe we should talk about it.
> I am not going to put in hacks to make things work for testing.
> That's just not the right way to go about things.
I don't really get why this would be such a dirty hack.
P.S.: I'm quite new to Debian so maybe I don't have a clue.
P.P.S.: I _REALLY_ appreciate your work, especially as a new Debian
user. This distribution rocks and since I'm using KDE quite a lot you
are an important part of it.
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