On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:52:09PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Debian ships all sorts of software, including even > non-free software. Would it be possible to continue > rebuilding and shipping KDE 3.5, perhaps in "contrib", > perhaps with a huge "no security updates" disclaimer? Hi Mike. You've implied elsewhere in this thread that you have some users for whom you provide KDE-based desktop support of some kind. Would you really be willing to provide these people with a desktop comprised of software that not only gets no security support from the distro vendor, but also no security support from an upstream development community? KDE 3 is dead. Nobody is looking after the code base to find and squash bugs, patch security flaws, maintain compatibility with possible API changes of library dependencies, etc. This is not a simple matter of packaging. This is an orphaned project. Maybe someday this trinity project will amount to something, but it can not be considered anything short of a fork of the original KDE code base. It does not have the same developer community or resources, and can not be considered the same project. If it ends up getting packaged for Debian, which is certainly within the realm of possibilities, then it must be treated as a new project, and go through the standard NEW queue and all that. If the upstream maintainers of that project end up building a community of developers around their project, and there are people interested in packaging it for Debian, then you could very well see it included in squeeze+1. Given that nobody here has expressed any interest in actually doing that, I'm not sure how likely it really is. Howver, no matter what happens, there is zero chance of it being included in squeeze. noah
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