Hi I've installed the packages and they seem to be running fine.
Thanks to the team for your effort. It's much appreciated. br. Christian Surlykke On Wednesday 16 November 2005 20:48, Christopher Martin wrote: > [Please follow-up to debian-kde@lists.debian.org only. Thanks.] > > 3.5 RC1 PACKAGES > ================ > > The Debian Qt/KDE team has been hard at work, and would like to announce the > availability of packages for KDE 3.5 Release Candidate 1. These packages > have not been uploaded to the archive, not even experimental, but are > available from the pkg-kde alioth repository. They are still rough and > experimental, so don't use them unless you're willing to risk a broken > desktop. You can access the packages by adding the following lines to your > sources.list: > > deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5-rc1 ./ > deb-src http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5-rc1 ./ > > Again, these packages are NOT fully tested; you should NOT use them unless > you are willing to shoulder considerable risk, as not only is the packaging > as fresh as wet paint, but this isn't even a final KDE release, and is > therefore buggier than usual. > > I'd like to note that in addition to the usual team of packagers, Josh > Metzler contributed a great deal of quality work to the packaging of > several modules. Thanks! > > HELP US HELP YOU > ================ > > In making these packages available, we're giving users an opportunity to > help us prepare better packages for KDE 3.5.0. Since these packages are not > in the archive, you should not file official bugs concerning them. We ask > instead that problems be reported, in detailed messages, to > debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org (ask for a CC if you're not subscribed). Use > your judgment. Bugs that are fairly minor, and that are clearly not > packaging problems, should be directed to bugs.kde.org instead. Only > packaging problems, or really serious upstream issues that we really ought > to be aware of, should be reported to us at this stage. If in doubt, tell > us. > > Also, many KDE programs are still missing manpages. If you'd like to help > the team, please write a page or two and send it in. You can also help by > going through the Bug Tracking System, and closing your old bugs that are > no longer relevant, or just cleaning up issues that you know are fixed. > > NOT ALL MODULES AVAILABLE YET > ============================= > > All fully group-maintained KDE modules are available. The remaining modules > are not yet ready, but no significant issues have yet been found running, > say, kmail from 3.4.2 with kdelibs 3.5-rc1. But beware that > incompatibilities are a possibility. This is the sort of thing we'd be > interested in learning about. We don't have a timeline on the availability > of the remaining modules; please don't harass the maintainers of those > modules, as they are certainly aware of the situation and will make > progress as their time permits. > > OPTIMIZATIONS > ============= > > The much sought performance-enhancing feature of GCC visibility > (-fvisibility) is NOT enabled, nor is likely to be enabled for a long time. > Bugs in GCC - bugs that may not be fixed until GCC 4.2.0, sadly - are > causing too many problems. Indeed, visibility support is no longer enabled > by default in KDE, as of a few days ago. There are a few distributions that > may persist in enabling this feature, but they are using toolchains that > are heavily patched. > > THE ROAD AHEAD > ============== > > Unfortunately, a necessary change to Debian's GCC configuration [1], that > was just uploaded, breaks binary compatibility for many C++ libraries and > the applications that use them, forcing them to be renamed, as in, for > instance, libfoo7c2 --> libfoo7c2a. KDE is affected by this change. Once > the updated toolchain is in place for all architectures, and all libraries > that arts and kdelibs build-depend on are also transitioned (could be a > while...), then we will upload a transitioned KDE 3.4.3 to Sid (unstable). > KDE 3.5.0 will likely then move into experimental. Only once KDE 3.4.3 has > moved into Etch (testing), will KDE 3.5 be uploaded to unstable, however. > > Of course, this plan is tentative, and will be adapted to circumstance, > consultations with the Release Team, etc. But this should give you some > idea of the road ahead for KDE packaging in Debian. > > Enjoy the packages! > > Christopher Martin > (on behalf of the Debian Qt/KDE Team) > > 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/11/msg00080.html > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
