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Re: When will it be ready?



Michael Stucki said, and I quote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> > > So is it just me or was not everyone aware that Debian takes long with
> > > packages
> > > and you are not going to get them righ away.  If you want that then you
> > > should
> > > try Redhat.  I installed KDE3 on a RedHat box and its not all that
> > > diffrent or
> > > great, its a little bit fast and has a few new nice tools and it looks
> > > even more
> > > like Windows then it did before.  I personally prefered 2.2.1 to 3.0
> > > from what I
> > > saw at it at first glance.  So I don't understand the huge hurry of
> > > every one
> > > wanting to get it.  There are those who like to be running the latestst
> > > greatest
> > > and there are those who would like it stable first.  Rule of thumb never
> > > install
> > > something that is brand new right away because there are going to still
> > > be bugs
> > > in it, I have hosed my box a few times doing this.
> 
> > Yep, KDE 3.0.0 had quite a few bugs and they even still existed in 3.0.1
> > but puetzk is squashing them as quickly as I can find them. Hopefully
> > 3.0.1 will be mostly bug free. I will most likely have debs finished by
> > the time 3.0.1 is made available to packagers (May 8).  I already have
> > test debs available now but they still have a few debian specific bugs
> > in them.
> 
> But couldn't you at least update your "debian" control subdirectories on KDE 
> cvs? This would give anyone the possibility to play around with a running 
> base...
> 
Under KDE_3_0_BRANCH, you should find reasonably up to date kdelibs,
kdebase, kdeadmin, kdenetwork and probably more (I just can't be
bothered to check). arts debian is currently in HEAD. I will backport it
into ARTS_1_0_BRANCH hopefully later today.
-- 
David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

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