Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi!
Upgrading to Jessie introduces a major upgrade to Kontact, the KDE E-mail, Calendar and Addressbook component. This major upgrade can need manual intervention by users in some circumstances and it would be appropriate to document this in the release notes. The attached patch is a firat attempt to add this to the release notes. The patch and the wiki page to which it directs weere prepared in collaboration with #debian-qt-kde. cheers Stuart -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (550, 'testing-updates'), (550, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>From 1e300924ad88b1078a284690e6479ae6f3ba7cd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stuart Prescott <stu...@debian.org> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:25:19 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Add note for kontact upgrade Upgrading to Jessie introduces a major upgrade to Kontact, the KDE E-mail, Calendar and Addressbook component. This major upgrade can need manual intervention by users in some circumstances. --- en/issues.dbk | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk index b2522fe..2690790 100644 --- a/en/issues.dbk +++ b/en/issues.dbk @@ -517,4 +517,23 @@ lxc.kmsg = 0 the “settings” icon. </para> </section> + +<section id="kde-kontact"> + <!-- Wheezy to Jessie --> + <title>Migration to new KDE E-mail, Calendar and Contacts (Kontact)</title> + <para> + The Kontact Personal Information Management system has received a + major upgrade. The new version makes much greater use of metadata + indexing and each user's data must be migrated into these new indexes. + </para> + <para> + E-mail, calendar events and addressbook contacts are automatically + migrated when the user logs in and the relevant component is started. + Some advanced settings such as e-mail filters and custom templates + require manual intervention. Further details and troubleshooting + suggestions are collected on the + <ulink + url="https://wiki.debian.org/KDE/Jessie/kontact">Debian Wiki</ulink>. + </para> +</section> </chapter> -- 2.1.4