On Thursday 09 June 2005 22:04, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Hello all, > > this is a short mail to let you know that KDE 3.4 entering unstable > will take a while, since this transition is tied now to the C++ ABI > transition (see [1] for details). > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00004.html While I understand the idea to reduce load on the servers I really think that sucks. KDE 3.4 has been artificially delayed due to the Sarge freeze and I guess the ABI transition will also take a while. > Note that the packages in experimental (or Alioth, they're the same) > would be uploaded to sid now with very little modifications if there > wasn't this transition happening, so it should be safe to upgrade. Sigh. Switched from stable to unstable to avoid secondary sources. > In case you're wondering, GNOME 2.10 has been able to transition right > now because it's not written in C++. Poor gtkmm maintainers and gtkmm applications ;) I guess getting your tediously compiled platform splitted sucks even more :) Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtforum.org
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