> My post isn't supposed to be an insult to anyone, rather a wake up call that > we Debian & KDE have an alful lot of work going on in the front lines > (debian-kde) and the back end (CVS HEAD, third party applications), but there > is also an alwful lot of duplication going on which we can ill afford in > Debian.
Certainly the packaging effort itself (i.e., working on patches and everything in debian/) is not (in theory) duplicated, since it's all committed to KDE CVS. As soon as one developer fixes or changes something it's made available to everyone. (With the exception of Karolina's debs which AFAIK forked from CVS some time ago, but Ralf's packages use the debian stuff in CVS and indeed he also commits his updates as do the official maintainers). Thus, again with the exception of Karolina's debs, the only work that is in theory duplicated is the actual compilation which really *has* to be duplicated since the various archives are built in different environments (woody vs sid, gcc-2.95 vs gcc-3.2, etc). I'm actually quite happy with the current situation, and as I see it the tasks are reasonably well divided. I for instance take care of the packaging for modules x, y and z, but someone else (e.g., Ralf) takes care of building the binaries under an environment that's consistent with the other modules that he also builds. And of course when he discovers problems he fixes them and commits to CVS so the updates are passed back to me. Of course I speak only for myself, others' opinions may differ. :) Honestly, if we can only get that upload into sid I believe most of our current problems will simply go away. Happy new year. :) Ben.
