Re: KDE 3.5 Release Candidate 1 packages available on alioth
* Josh Metzler <joshdeb@metzlers.org> [2005 Nov 30 16:48 -0600]:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:47 pm, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 November 2005 20:26, Josh Metzler wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 30 November 2005 02:17 pm, Yves Glodt wrote:
> > > > why not stop wasting resources and halt work on 3.4.3 and go with
> > > > 3.5 immediately, anyway etch will come with 3.5 I guess... no?
> > >
> > > The release team asked us not to do that. They want the g++
> > > allocator transition to go quickly, which means not uploading major
> > > new versions of large packages like KDE.
> >
> > But for the g++ allocator transition all KDE packages must be updated
> > anyway. Now you want to update all KDE 3.4 packages to update them some
> > days later again with 3.5 packages. Isn't that more work than to go to
> > 3.5 directly?
>
> It is more work for us, but not too much. It is basically just running a
> couple of scripts and then rebuilding each package, as KDE 3.4.3 was
> already packaged for experimental, and not much has changed since then.
>
> The release team is concerned with both the transition in unstable, and the
> transition in testing. The concern is that uploading KDE 3.5 to unstable
> right now might cause a longer delay in getting the g++ allocator
> transition (which affects much more than just KDE) into testing. The
> release team doesn't want unstable->testing migrations to stop for any
> longer than is necessary. Hopefully the transition will go quickly and KDE
> 3.5 can go into unstable soon.
Thanks for the update, Josh. I shall be patient although this C++
thing is getting on my nerves!
- Nate >>
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