On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:08:16PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr [Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:09:39 +0000]: > > The "Desktop environment" task is broken on non-i386/powerc machines > > because of kdegraphics: > > I don't know what response is expected from the KDE Team. just to do a > catch-all reply: yes, we are aware of the issue but it's out of our > domain. as you probably already know, it is caused by a t-p-u > kdegraphics upload being forced into sarge with missing builds (in the > days of the libtiff transition). this was regarded, we can imagine, as > the lesser of all evils by the Release Team. > > I believe the Release Managers would have allowed for individual > kdegraphics 4:3.2.3-1.1 builds to trickle into testing, but afaict no > arches other than i386 and powerpc managed to build it (I have no > ACCEPTED mail, and no binaries in the mirrors either). some RM should > be able to say why no other arch could build it. > > please let us know if we can be of any help.
I think the real solution to this recuring problem is to split the dekstop patch into a "just X", "gnome" and "KDE" task. This is much more friendlier to our non-broadband users, and it makes the task stuff actually usable. As it stands, we could as well not show it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
