Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable
El Miércoles, 5 de Mayo de 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. escribió:
> In 4.3, this is not true. From what I hear on upstream mailing lists, this
> won't be true in 4.5. Upstream is already aware and working on the issue,
> but it falls under "new feature" so it won't be included in the 4.4.x line.
>
> For me, KDE 4.4 is the most broken KDE release since 4.1 (I didn't try
> 4.0). I'd rather have 4.3.x in Squeeze than 4.4.
4.5 won't be ready on time, and it's almost impossible to go back to 4.3 (it
would require raising an epoch, do a really complicated transition, and lots,
lots, lots of work).
Debian packagers don't have that much time to spend on packaging (they are
volunteers after all), and hardly they can do decisions about which
particular branch is better. They have to package the last one which has been
released, unless has been released very soon and there is no time for
testing. Also, is specially hard to decide which branch is better, because
branch A can have application X in a great shape, and application Y in a bad
one, while in branch B the case might be the opposite. And having to go back
one whole release of the whole software compilation just because one app has
one annoying dependency is a little bit overkill, isn't it?
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