Hi Ramon, I guess that you wanted to send your email to the debian-kde list ;) I agree with you that the lib renaming is going to trigger quite a lot of problems. I had indeed to reinstall skype using the static lib because the libqt4-core renaming.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Ramon Antonio Parada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you really sure that removing libqt4-core and adding libqtcore4 is > a good idea? Maybe can be different packages but what I really care > about is dependencies. Any application that runs with libqt4-core 4.3 > will run if you have installed libqtcore4. Compatibility must be > maintained forward, not backward. > > 1. User's won't just have problems when updating to qt 4.4. External > packages like skype will take months for updating, becoming broken. > (Runs ok both with libqt4-core 4.3 and libqtcore4 4.4 but depends on > libqt4-core). Then they will have to deal with Ubuntu Dapper that > includes libqt4-core 4.3. > > 3. After that don't know if Ubuntu will do the same renaming for next > version but many people will still use Dapper so in worst case there > will be three or four different combinations and packages (or > dependency changes) must be done to deal with this situation. > > > Don't have a good knowledge of the reasons for renaming but please, > Keep It Simple > > > -- > Ramon Antonio Parada > Skype: ramon.parada > Spain: +34 651 948819 > US: +1 (310) 651-8072 > http://ramonantonio.net/ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
