Re: KDEE3 question

2002-12-05 Thread Daniel Stone
[Excuse the dodgy quality, I'm trying to construct a reply from DWN]. On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:03:05 +0100, Michael Meskes scrawled: but since gcc 2.95 is still standard in Debian I guess the switch to 3.2 will take much longer than the release of KDE 3.1 which is due next week. And the

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:17:19PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: First thing: KDE 3.1 will not be released this week. Expect a public announcement on this soon, but until then, I can say no more. Sorry, but it's out of my control. I know what you're talking about as I just talked to Ralf.

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-12-05 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:02:34AM +0100, Michael Meskes scrawled: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:17:19PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: Secondly, ftpmasters have to add overrides for new packages, in case you didn't realize. That takes time: their time adding them, and our time waiting. We're

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:28:20PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: Nope - the 3.0.x packages just were not ready to go into sid. Any package where the upgrade strategy is to purge the old and install the new just doesn't work. 3.1.x will be the first packages where upgrades from 2.2.x are clean.

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-12-02 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:53:40AM +0100, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: You're right. Packages from kde.org are very stable, and I think - correctly created, I'm using them for long time (about three months), AFAIK the debian dirs are in KDE cvs anyway. and I didn't notice any problems with them.

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Colin Watson [Fri, Nov 29 2002, 02:14:35PM]: to see a good reason for not compiling KDE3 on gcc 2.95 as this definitely works or else there wouldn't be a single KDE3 for woody package on kde.org. The good reason is that all the KDE library sonames have to be changed

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-30 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
temporar breakage. So it would be good to change them anyways. And looking so, the existing KDE3 packages could also go into Sid _now_. You're right. Packages from kde.org are very stable, and I think - correctly created, I'm using them for long time (about three months), and I didn't notice

KDEE3 question

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Meskes
Hi, I was just being told that we won't get any KDE3 packages until the whole Debian project is moved to gcc 3.2. Is this correct? If so, why? And is there a timetable? Is it a problem to compile the packages with gcc 2.95? The matter of the fact is that almost all Debian/KDE users are already

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 29 Nov 2002 9:12 am, Michael Meskes wrote: Hi, I was just being told that we won't get any KDE3 packages until the whole Debian project is moved to gcc 3.2. Is this correct? If so, why? And is there a timetable? Is it a problem to compile the packages with gcc 2.95? The matter of

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-29 Thread Jérôme Marant
Tom Badran wrote: On Friday 29 Nov 2002 9:12 am, Michael Meskes wrote: Hi, I was just being told that we won't get any KDE3 packages until the whole Debian project is moved to gcc 3.2. Is this correct? If so, why? And is there a timetable? Is it a problem to compile the packages with gcc 2.95?

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:52:52AM +, Tom Badran wrote: The plan as i understand it is to supply gcc 3.2 built packages once kde 3.1 is released, and never supply gcc 2.95 ones in debian but since gcc 2.95 is still standard in Debian I guess the switch to 3.2 will take much longer than the

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:07:15AM +0100, Jrme Marant wrote: AFAIK, both gcc-3.2 and binutils have to be checked on every architecture and the transition will start once all architectures are ready for the transition. And of course we have to create a plan for this transition before we can

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:05:46PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: Frankly, I can see the transition taking some more time, but still fail to see a good reason for not compiling KDE3 on gcc 2.95 as this definitely works or else there wouldn't be a single KDE3 for woody package on kde.org. The

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 29 November 2002 09:12, Michael Meskes wrote: The matter of the fact is that almost all Debian/KDE users are already using ftp.kde.org to get the KDE packages. Um, how do you know this? Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:57:32PM +, Paul Cupis wrote: The matter of the fact is that almost all Debian/KDE users are already using ftp.kde.org to get the KDE packages. Um, how do you know this? Sorry, I of course don't know all Debian/KDE users. I was just extrapolating. I talked to