-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
as some of you got to know until now, I switched from SuSE to Debian this week - - and directly hit the fact that building debs from CVS would work best for me to have it working the right way (tm). Now, I got into working with Chris lately and we try to fix the issues one by one soon now so that everyone can build debs himself but more important, provide debs for KDE constantly that work, where also most importantly betas, RC's and finals are provided by the day that the packages are build and work optimal on Debian. The other thing is that third party apps need to be compiled if you like to use them. Until now several people do that for the apps they like to run or that they are developing using debian as their development platform. The problem for the users is that the deb lines for sources.list are spread all over and there is no central way of getting the newest apps through debs for people that are not necessarily developers like we are. The other thing is that as developers, just doing a make install would work but that usually messes up our systems, especially as KDE has /usr as its prefix on debian. So it would be the best if we could somehow collect our resources and schedule building debs and providing them in a central place. I talked with Dirk Müller already and some other guys that I use to work with at KDE and we should provide that possibility through KDE on ftp.kde.org. Wether that will work out just depends on how many people would volunteer to participate. If you're interested, let's come together to finally end this messy system where there's certain problems with building debs for us and the KDE users using debian, it would surely make things a *lot* easier if we organize ourselves and coordinate doing things efficiently. Thanks for your attention and for volunteering :-) Ralf - -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9hKjFu0nKi+w1Ky8RApYuAJ99B4CoIKcjCbtnIXr6z55tuiawEACdH/GV 77boQrRHorvDm4G/GjgqnwA= =nYVL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
