Re: Is it safe to dist-upgrade kde* now?
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:13:56AM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:43:39PM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote:
>
> > Kim Adil wrote (Tuesday 06 September 2005 4:56 pm):
> > > Subject says it all I think. I and many others had to roll back, and I
> > > was advised to hold back. How will I know when to proceed?
> >
> > From my experience, the answer is "nearly" or "almost". Some things still
> > haven't been compiled on the new ABI and so will conflict. Most things,
> > however, and the majority of the KDE packages, are ready.
>
> I assume, rightly or wrongly, that it will be officially considered
> ready when the metapackages, such as kde and kdecore, are upgraded to
> depend on 3.4.2 instead of 3.3.2.
>
> > A couple of days ago I bit the bullet and upgraded. I had to remove a number
> > of packages that hadn't been updated yet, like superkaramba, lyx-qt, koffice,
> > and kwin-baghira, among ~50 others. But for me, I think losing them (only
> > temporarily, I expect) was worth it.
>
> I now have a KDE 3.4.2 desktop with Konqueror, Konsole, KMail, KNode,
> K3B, Kate, KSokoban, KPDF, KGPG and a few other things. The only
> program I use regularly that's still unavailable to me is Rosegarden4,
> which I expect will take some time yet.
>
> If a package doesn't use the 3.3.2/3.4.2 version system, an easy way
> to check whether it can be installed with KDE 3.4.2 is to see if it
> still depends on kdelibs4. The upgraded packages depend on kdelibs4c2
> instead.
>
> > Most of the functional stuff is there and ready, but not all of it. Unless
> > you're really eager to transition, like I was, it's probably best to wait
> > until we're given the official "all clear", which, depending on how soon some
> > maintainers get the rear into gear, may be a week or more, yet.
> >
> > Peace,
> > Brendon
> >
> > PS: Many cheers to all the maintainers involved in pulling off this, and all
> > the other simultaneous transitions so smoothly!
>
> It's been a pleasure to watch the orderly way in which KDE 3.4.2 has
> gone from "totally broken" to "almost completely functional" in just a
> few days. Cheers indeed!
>
> --
> PJR :-)
And are all these packages and xorg likely to move ito testing soon thereafter?
Or are there other logs blocking the road?
-- hendrik
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