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Re: Qt versioning (was: KDE 3.1.2 broken)



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On Tuesday 22 July 2003 14:43, Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> wrote:
> > Seems libqt3-mt-dev in sid is a lower version number than the woody
> > version at kde.org.
>
> Is it?  This is a serious problem - upgrades from woody to sid should
> be seamless.  I recall having to epoch several of my KDE modules from
> 0: to 4: because the woody backports had incorrect version numbers
> which broke the upgrades.
>
> Can either Ralf or Madkiss shed some light on this?  I do *not* want
> to see the situation where sarge releases and we have a flood of
> users posting because their Qt and KDE won't upgrade properly. 
> Especially given that one of debian's major strengths over other
> distributions is its upgrades.

Last time I checked the version of Qt3 on kde.org (i.e. for Woody) was 
greater than the version on sid. A workaround is documented on 
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianKDE

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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