On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:13:37AM -0800, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: >> > writing the status here before we forget it.. >> > >> > scarlett kindy did the backports of kf5 into utopic using the >> > kubuntu-ninjas >> > PPA (after some faff failing to get the kubuntu-next/staging ppa to accept >> > them) >> > they were copied to kubuntu-ppa/next but then we had reports of them >> > causing >> > failed upgrades so they were deleted >> > I tidied up the backport of kglobalaccel which was breaking the upgrades >> > Now when I try to copy them over to kubuntu-ppa/next it complains there is >> > already that version of the package in kubuntu-ppa/next even though there >> > is >> > not >> > >> > if someone has the energy for it they can bump the version numbers in the >> > packages in kubuntu-ninjas and get them all to compile again them copy them >> > to kubuntu-ppa/next. But i'm mostly out of energy for it :( >> > >> > Jonathan >> >> Are we actually supporting next and next-backports for 14.10? My >> broken system makes it appear that we are not. >> >> I suggest that we remove the notice about those in the KDE wiki, and >> suggest people either use one of the ISOs for 14.10 or install Beta 1 >> Vivid. >> >> I've never had an upgrade leave me unable to login to KDE before. Not >> a good experience. I know that the next and next-backports are testing >> material, so I was fairly warned. But we've run out of time to support >> them, so let's cut our losses and put our energy into Vivid. > > This sounds like a realistic idea to me. We don't seem to have the > energy needed for a kf5 backport, we've said there won't be an upgrade > root for 14.10 plasma5 to 15.04, so we'd be perfectly ok it's just a > tech preview and it won't get any better.
how does one prevent the user from upgrading if they have next packages? HS -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
