KDE 3.2-beta2
KDE 3.2-beta2 appears to never get announced. I guess it is delayed. (or have
I missed the announcement somehow).
When I packed the KDE 3.1 beta1, I more or less took the version from CVS and
compiled it. But now for KDE 3.2-beta2 I have put down much more work on
packaging and it is branched off from the CVS version in a direction of its
own.
One thing I have done is to break out many libraries from kdelibs so that
there is no monolithic kdelibs4 anymore, but instead a group of smaller
packages containing one separate library or a group of related libraries.
The reason for this is not package bloat, but to make it possible to install a
KDE application and just need to install just those libraries that are
needed, and not all kdelibs libraries. It is also so that applications from
different versions of KDE possibly can coexist. One typical example was the
libkjava library, that does not exist anymore in kdelibs, but since it was
not separately broken out, old kde applications can't run anymore.
I am still working on everything, now more on the level of filling in holes,
fixing things to adhere better to debian policy, fixing installation clashes,
requirements, etc., writing manual pages and things like that.
As things sounds, this might be the only debian packed version of kde 3.1
compiled with the old gcc compiler.
Testing of everything might take forever, since I am only one person, so
whoever want to try, the whole thing is available. I will fix problems when
they are reported, if it is something within my powers and I can figure out
how to fix it.
Someone that want something stable - don't bother. Someone who want to test
(and hopefully report problems), the whole thing is available with http:
protocol on
http://cgi.algonet.se/htbin/cgiwrap/pgd/debian/kde3.1-beta2
and with ftp on
http://cgi.algonet.se/htbin/cgiwrap/pgd/ftp/debian/kde3.1-beta2.
(Yes, http:, not ftp, since a cgi script is supplying the ip address)
This time it is apt-aware, and is in subdirectories. Also in the directories
is a file on the form "kdexxxx-debian-src.tar.gz", which contains the debian
files that differ from them in those in the cvs. (Not exactly, since I have a
build script that might do some extra things, but the files are there for
reference)
Just note that this is still a cvs snapshot, and there are problems from KDE.
The KDE cvs is still in quite a flux, which might be why the beta2 freeze is
not done yet.
I have not had time to try installing just one applicatation without KDE, to
see what happens. I want to fix so that works. But it is not tested.
Some package might require some rare library. I am trying to eliminate that in
some instances, and break out a separate package for that rare library. But
actually, I don't even know which libraries are rare, so if someone finds
something, and reports it, I might fix it.
As usual, my machine has a dynamic IP-address (don't save the numeric
address), and has a slow ADSL connection that appears to be able to deliver
only something like 800kbps, so it can be slow.
-- Karolina
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