On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:56:48AM +0000, John Gay wrote: > So, if I understand you correctly, you are going to revert qt back to the > old libpng2 rather than keep it at the new one, which Daniel is planning to > re-compile the rest of kde to?
Yes, I am sponsoring Daniel so I will be compiling kde after I finish with libqt2. > This is just a temperary measure to fix the current majorly broken state of > KDE for the moment, right? Temporary as in libqt3 will be using libpng3, yes. I see little point in using libpng3 with libqt2 especially since it might break upgrades from potato. > Are you and Daniel planning to re-compile everything against the new > libpng and upload it in one go afterwards to reduce the headaches for those > of us tracking unstable and testing together? No. It will be reverted to libpng2. > At the moment, I've only got problems with kmail missing icons. konq has > its icon, unless I start it from the command line and I'm missing the KDE > splash screen when I log in. I have not checked the likes of kdevelop, > quata's+ or most of the rest of kde, because I haven't had much time and > ignorance is bliss : ). > I haven't done an update in a while, but I'm running testing with kde from > unstable, as that was more stable than testing. I'm just waiting until this > blows over and I can upgrade to a properly working kde. I've heard mixed > reports of some fixes but other breakages so I'm sitting on my hands to > keep from upgrading. Once I hear that the unstable kde is in good working > order again, I'll upgrade. Hopefully unstable kde will be working good within 10 days (time for buildds to catch up). > Thanks for picking up the pieces after Ivan had to drop kde. Several of us > were afraid we would have to wait through another version of Debian before > seeing kde in a stable branch. I am going to do my best to make sure KDE stays in Woody, I use it myself every day. > > Cheers, > > John Gay
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