Re: kde 4.6

[Beojan Stanislaus <beojan@lavabit.com>]

On Sunday 27 March 2011 13:59:46 Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On sekmadienis 27 Kovas 2011 13:14:24 Igor Sheykin wrote:
> > I think this question is very popular in the last few weeks.
> > Nevertheless, "When would be KDE 4.6.x added to debian repos?",
> > or it would be better to ask "Would some new KDE4 versions added to
> > debian repos before Wheezy stable release?".
> > What are the reasons why there are no new versions of KDE4 ?
> 
> KDE SC 4.6.1 -> http://qt-kde.debian.net/ (ETA a few days). This time new
> KDE will not conflict with most third-party applications (e.g. ktorrent,
> kdiff3 etc.) from official archive (however there might be a few crashes,
> not sure yet).
> 
> Official archive will get KDE SC 4.6.2 or later.
> 
> P.S. Upgrade will not be very smooth for semiofficial KDE SC 4.5.1/4.5.3
> users. Some more advanced apt/aptitude/dpkg experience might be needed. Be
> prepared.

What I don't understand is the reason why the same packaging (as for 4.5.1) 
can't be used (simply updating the version numbers, and uploaders field, and 
such things). Is there a big change in dependancies, or how KDE is compiled, 
of something of that sort?