KDE 3.2-beta2 appears to never get announced. I guess it is delayed. (or have I missed the announcement somehow).
When I packed the KDE 3.1 beta1, I more or less took the version from CVS and compiled it. But now for KDE 3.2-beta2 I have put down much more work on packaging and it is branched off from the CVS version in a direction of its own. One thing I have done is to break out many libraries from kdelibs so that there is no monolithic kdelibs4 anymore, but instead a group of smaller packages containing one separate library or a group of related libraries. The reason for this is not package bloat, but to make it possible to install a KDE application and just need to install just those libraries that are needed, and not all kdelibs libraries. It is also so that applications from different versions of KDE possibly can coexist. One typical example was the libkjava library, that does not exist anymore in kdelibs, but since it was not separately broken out, old kde applications can't run anymore. I am still working on everything, now more on the level of filling in holes, fixing things to adhere better to debian policy, fixing installation clashes, requirements, etc., writing manual pages and things like that. As things sounds, this might be the only debian packed version of kde 3.1 compiled with the old gcc compiler. Testing of everything might take forever, since I am only one person, so whoever want to try, the whole thing is available. I will fix problems when they are reported, if it is something within my powers and I can figure out how to fix it. Someone that want something stable - don't bother. Someone who want to test (and hopefully report problems), the whole thing is available with http: protocol on http://cgi.algonet.se/htbin/cgiwrap/pgd/debian/kde3.1-beta2 and with ftp on http://cgi.algonet.se/htbin/cgiwrap/pgd/ftp/debian/kde3.1-beta2. (Yes, http:, not ftp, since a cgi script is supplying the ip address) This time it is apt-aware, and is in subdirectories. Also in the directories is a file on the form "kdexxxx-debian-src.tar.gz", which contains the debian files that differ from them in those in the cvs. (Not exactly, since I have a build script that might do some extra things, but the files are there for reference) Just note that this is still a cvs snapshot, and there are problems from KDE. The KDE cvs is still in quite a flux, which might be why the beta2 freeze is not done yet. I have not had time to try installing just one applicatation without KDE, to see what happens. I want to fix so that works. But it is not tested. Some package might require some rare library. I am trying to eliminate that in some instances, and break out a separate package for that rare library. But actually, I don't even know which libraries are rare, so if someone finds something, and reports it, I might fix it. As usual, my machine has a dynamic IP-address (don't save the numeric address), and has a slow ADSL connection that appears to be able to deliver only something like 800kbps, so it can be slow. -- Karolina
