Re: Important for KDE 4 users: KDE 4.0.3 and KDE 4.1 trunk
On 2008-04-07, Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm@debian.org> wrote:
Hi Christophe
> Hi Ramon
>
> I guess that you wanted to send your email to the debian-kde list ;)
> I agree with you that the lib renaming is going to trigger quite a lot
> of problems.
> I had indeed to reinstall skype using the static lib because the
> libqt4-core renaming.
We do our best to keep it simple. but issues like abi changes and stuff
needs to be dealt with properly.
As a boost maintainer I think you know about that ;)
We might provide a libqt4-core transitional package, but taht is still
undecided. (please see thread on -release)
I don't know if ubuntu will follow the rename.
/Sune
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Ramon Antonio Parada
><rap@ramonantonio.net> wrote:
>> Are you really sure that removing libqt4-core and adding libqtcore4 is
>> a good idea? Maybe can be different packages but what I really care
>> about is dependencies. Any application that runs with libqt4-core 4.3
>> will run if you have installed libqtcore4. Compatibility must be
>> maintained forward, not backward.
>>
>> 1. User's won't just have problems when updating to qt 4.4. External
>> packages like skype will take months for updating, becoming broken.
>> (Runs ok both with libqt4-core 4.3 and libqtcore4 4.4 but depends on
>> libqt4-core). Then they will have to deal with Ubuntu Dapper that
>> includes libqt4-core 4.3.
>>
>> 3. After that don't know if Ubuntu will do the same renaming for next
>> version but many people will still use Dapper so in worst case there
>> will be three or four different combinations and packages (or
>> dependency changes) must be done to deal with this situation.
>>
>>
>> Don't have a good knowledge of the reasons for renaming but please,
>> Keep It Simple
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ramon Antonio Parada
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>>
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