On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:52:47PM -0800, tluxt wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this request implies you must recapitulate anything, > but after considering the alternatives, this seemed the better option. > > I know there was a scramble to take on packages & quickly find a solution > to the image/icon problem when Ivan released the packages he was maintaining. > > Now that that issue seems to be largely past, I would > appreciate it if you both would take a moment and answer a few questions, > involving things such as: > > 1) Who you are, what you do in real life, how you got involved in Debian, > and involved in KDE, what (if anything) you packaged in Debian before this, > what (if anything) you did in KDE before this, why & how you came to the > decision to take on maintainership of the KDE packages.
I have been a Debian user since around Aug 1998, and have been a maintainer since July 2000 (I was stuck in the closed NM queue for a while). I currently have 19 source packages, 18 of which are not KDE related. Once I upload the all of the KDE packages I think I will have around 42. I decided to maintain the KDE packages because I use it every day and didn't want to see the packages deteriorate. > 2) What do you see as the time frame for upcomming Debian/KDE milestones? > Such as: > > A) What is the plan/roadmap/future for KDE related things in Debian? > the metapackage (or, what is it called now? Task?) of kde vs of kdebase. My plan is to examine all of KDE 2.2.2, which I am currently doing. Then I will upload a final set of packages so that they can make it into Woody. Then I will start preparing KDE 3 debs and will host them on p.d.o/~ccheney/ until KDE 3 is released or Woody is frozen whichever happens first. > B) What's up w/ KOffice for Debian? Re: Woody or Sid? I don't know anything about KOffice. > C) What's your recommendation regarding: would you advise people who want > to be making productive use of KDE now to run Woody or Sid? Well I thought that fixed KDE 2.2.2 would be in woody by now but it appears that m68k is holding up kdebase for a build deps (seems odd). I will try to get it in as soon as possible though. Sid should be fine if you want to run that. > D) What's up w/ KDE 3? - When, and for whom, should persons trying to make > actual daily use of KDE begin to use KDE3? Can KDE2 & KDE3 be put onto > the same system, and switched between? Is it necessary to do a complete > separate Debian install, (one for KDE2 & one for KDE3) on the harddisk > if one wants to be able to try switch between 2 & 3? KDE 3 is still a bit buggy from what I hear, I haven't actually built debs for it yet since I am still working on the 2.2.2. I would imagine that I will have good working debs by the time it is officially released (hopefully sooner). KDE2 and KDE3 can not be installed at the same time without some work, and I will not be supporting both of them being installed at the same time. I am not going to have both in the archive at the same time since it would take an enormous amount of space, if I remember correctly someone said KDE currently takes approximately 2.5GB of archive space now (between all the archs and woody/sid). > I ask these questions since I'd like to make some judgements about what to > put in the KDE HowTo I'm developing. For instance, I'd like to have good > data to base a decision on regarding: should I suggest, (and write it from > the perspective of) persons run Woody, and if necessary pull packages from > Sid? Or, is & will Sid be basically enough free of substantial problems > that it would be better for most people trying to do productive work with > KDE that they run Sid, in order to have the latest features? currently you probably still need to run Sid, but hopefully this situation will change soon. > (For instance, two areas I'm currently possibly affected by are: > 1) Kghostview - does the Sid version fix a major problem? I hope to address this issue in my next upload. > 2) kde vs kdebase - does Sid have a kde package that provides > many more features (& thus involves much less sw installation time/effort) > than Woody?) sid has the KDE meta packages which I don't think are in woody yet? The meta packages make it much easier to install KDE. > It would be much appreciated if you would each free up some of your > valueable time to each answer the above questions for all here who are > interested in the future of KDE on Debian! > > Thanks. :)
