Bug #20517
Despite the fact that I often need help with packaging as well ...
It's very difficult to install a consistant kde (98MMDD), even if
previous kde versions (BETA2) are not installed:
- there is no set of packages, which are all made from the same
snapshot.
- Many packages have equal dependencies like kdelibs0g (= 980312-3).
Wouldn't it be better to make this look:
kdelibs0g (>= 980312-<build-num-or-0>), kdelibs0g (< 980313)
where the second dependency is the next snapshot (at least next day).
The other problem is, that the BETA2-kde's are in frozen, and the new
ones go to experimental ... BETA2 never get's overwritten. However
despite the inconsistencies the new snapshots are much more stable
(thanks ;-) and I would consider them as bug fixes, which should go to
frozen (or at least to unstable).
I didn't explicitly check, if I violate the policy in some way, but
there should be some mentors on the list as well ;-)
Matthias
Stephan Kulow writes:
> Hi!
>
> I'm clueless, what to do with this bug report.
> Shouldn't dpkg handle this and deinstall the Beta2-2 versions?
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Greets, Stephan
>
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> > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 06:57:52 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Randy Edwards <redwards@together.net>
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> > To: submit@bugs.debian.org
> > Subject: KDE package problems
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> > Sender: Randy Edwards <redwards@spartacus.golgotha.net>
> >
> > I'm running Hamm (w/kernel 2.0.33) and dselect gives me the following
> > errors when trying to update KDE.
> >
> > It reports that kdeutils depends on kdelibs0g (= 980312-3) while
> > kdenetwork, kdegames, and kdebase depend on kdelibs0g (= Beta2-2). This
> > conflict makes KDE unusable.
> >
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