On Thursday 06 August 2009 15:24:33 Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > On ketvirtadienis 06 Rugpjūtis 2009 15:06:05 Arthur Marsh wrote: > > Thanks for the quick turnaround, but it leaves me with an interesting > > situation. > > > > I run most packages from unstable, but have kept KDE at 3.5.9/3.5.10 as > > my reason for running KDE in the first place was Quanta, which is still > > at 4:3.5.9-3, and does not "see" cervisia versions later than 4:3.5.9-3 > > and needs kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.X also. > > > > I have been able to run KDE 3.5.9/3.5.10 with some KDE 4.X packages > > (e.g. okular) where X <= 2.4. > > > > With KDE 4.3.Y hitting unstable, I have had to hold packages like okular > > at version 4.2.4 to avoid upgrading to KDE 4.X as the base environment. > > > > Is it possible to migrate to KDE 4.3.Z and leave enough KDE 3.5.whatever > > compatibility to run programs such as Quanta and Rosegarden which are a > > long way from being ported to KDE 4.x with full functionality? > > With the upload of KDE 4.3, this has become a lot harder. Old kdebase-data > and kdebase-runtime are no longer co-installable (intentionally). We have > stated many times that we are NOT willing to support KDE 3.5 desktop in > sid. We have also stated that we are willing to help other people to get > some KDE3 apps like Quanta working with KDE 4 desktop (with proper > (re)packaging of it). Therefore, you are very welcome to start > (re)packaging Quanta. > > Alternatively, you can hack binary package Depends: field and see it if the > end result works without some dependencies.
Aside from GUI calls to qt3 and kde3 libraries (which can be kept around), there is decop. A call compatable library channeling is operation through dbus would/should have been a valuable step in the transition. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
