FW: kde in "testing" ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jochen Daum [mailto:jochen.daum@cans.co.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2003 8:24 a.m.
> To: Henrik Christian Grove
> Subject: RE: kde in "testing" ?
>
>
> Hi !
>
> > stan <stanb@panix.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
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> > > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:55 pm, stan wrote:
> >
> > > > > Calculating Upgrade... Done
> > > > > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> > > > > ark kab karm kate kcalc kcharselect kchart
> > kcoloredit kcron kdebase
> > > > > kdebase-libs kdepasswd kdf kdict kdm kedit kfind
> > kformula kfract
> > > > > kghostview khexedit kiconedit kit kivio kjots kmail
> > knewsticker knode
> > > > > knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror konsole kontour
> > korn koshell
> > > > > kpackage kpaint kpm kpresenter kruler kscreensaver
> > ksirc ksnapshot
> > > > > kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword libarts
> > libkdenetwork1
> > > > > libkmid libkonq3 libvorbis0 secpolicy xmmsarts
> > > > >
> > > > > That looks pretty bad to me.
> > > > >
> > > > > Am I mistaken?
> > > >
> > > > It depends, do you have KDE 2.x installed, or some
> > other backport ? If
> > > > so KDE 3 went into testing about a week ago and will
> > replace any
> > > > existing KDE install. I don't know why it wants to
> > remove as opposed to
> > > > upgrade, not enough info.
> > >
> > > Pure box stock Debain, no odd backports, or anything.
> > >
> > > What addtioanl info can I provide?
> >
> > I see almost the same thing (not quite the same list of
> packages).
> > The only package `apt-get dist-upgrade` wanted to update
> > was libarts1
> > which replaces libarts, but along with that it wanted to
> > remove (almost)
> > everything related to kde.
> >
> > Trying to `apt-get install libarts1` it just wanted to
> > remove libarts
> > (which is quite an obvious thing to do), kbattleship and libkmid.
> >
> > Finding that libarts1-dev replaces libkmid, I then tried `apt-get
> > install libarts1 libarts1-dev`, that wanted to remove
> > libqt3-dev which
> > has been replaced by libqt3-compat-headers (which are
> > suggested/recommended by that apt-get command).
> >
> > I finally decided to actually do an `apt-get install libarts1
> > libarts1-dev libqt3-compat-headers`, which resulted in the
> > removal of
> > kbattleship.
> >
> > Then `apt-get dist-upgrade` wanted to upgrade libprm4 to a
> > version that
> > conflicts with kpackage, I allowed that too.
> >
> > As far as I can tell the problems preventing an upgrade of kde is:
> >
> > - koffice (e.g. kchart) is waiting for glibc.
> > - kpm has been replaced by ksysguard, which depends on
> > ksysguardd which
> > in turn depends on the non-existant libsensors-1debian1
>
> There's a dependency wrong here, it should depend on
> libsensors. There are meta libsensors-1debian1 packages on
> the net which provide this dependency .
>
> > - kdemultiedia (e.g. kscd) is just a mess (0 days old,
> > RC-bugs, lots of
> > packages not yet compiled on non-i386).
> > - kdeartwork (e.g. kscreensaver) is out of date on arm and mips.
> > - kdepim (karm, knotes and korganizer) is out of date on mips.
> > - kfract only exists in stable (+security)
> >
> > In the 'probably not a problem' category, are a few
> > packages that have
> > been replaced:
> > - kenolaba replaces kabalone
> > - kdelibs-data replaces several packages (e.g. kontour)
> > - libkdenetwork2-dev replaces libkdenetwork1
> > - libkonq4 replaces libkonq3
> > The 'probably' is due to the fact that I can't tell if
> > these packages
> > would be installed if the above problems were solved.
> >
> > In the 'I don't really know how this should be' category, I
> > wonder if
> > libkdegames1 should replace libkdegames.
> >
>
>
> HTH, Jochen
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