Re: KDE PIM packaging
Am Dienstag, 19. Juni 2012 schrieb Modestas Vainius:
> Hello,
>
> On antradienis 19 Birželis 2012 19:43:12 Valerio Passini wrote:
> > martedì 19 giugno 2012
> >
> > I could understand this point of view if:
> > 1 - a tool to ease the migration it's going to be on the way any time
> > soon (in the next 2-3 years) before the release of what will be the
> > next stable after Wheezy, but if such tool is not in anybody's mind
> > I can only complain this decision.
> > 2 - this hypothetical migration tool will still hold a meaning,
> > considering the major changes that will come in the next future like
> > the entire KDE moving from 4.x to 5.x, with likely a lot of new
> > stuff. This will doom Debian to be always lagging in respect to KDE
> > releases, to miss new technology and to support mixed KDE
> > environment with piece of "old" KDE inside. This should scare the
> > developers more than users having troubles migrating emails, IMO.
>
> There is nothing wrong with having "old KDE inside" if it works. That
> said, I don't claim that pim 2 does not work. We simply don't know it
> and it's too late in the game to find out (IMHO). Inexistance of a
> good migration tool helps to make the decision though.
>
> FWIW, I'm pretty sure that migration won't ever be fixed. However,
> users will have more time to adjust at the start of the next release
> cycle. What is more, I think somebody will be kind enough and upload
> kdepim 4.8.4 to backports and wheezy users will have the best of two
> worlds (a choice) in the end.
I agree.
Better let us likely a bit more experienced Debian KDE users here on the
list test KDEPIM 2 for a while before letting it loose on all Debian KDE
users.
Thanks,
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