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Re: kde 3 in woody - why so hard



On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:48:59PM +0000, Stephen Birch scrawled:
> I guess I don't get this.
> 
> The advantage of debian over all other distributions is meant to be the ease 
> of upgrades. Indeed, it is VERY well done, the apt mechanism is a beautiful 
> piece of software engineering.
> 
> So how come kde isn't trivial to upgrade?

We didn't expend enough time on upgrade testing for the 3.0 packages,
sadly. I personally didn't have the time, and neither did Chris.
Luckily, we've had that time this time around, and the 3.1 packages will
upgrade cleanly.

-- 
Daniel Stone 	     <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au>             <dstone@kde.org>
Developer - http://kopete.kde.org, http://www.kde.org

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