On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:13:56AM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:43:39PM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > > > Kim Adil wrote (Tuesday 06 September 2005 4:56 pm): > > > Subject says it all I think. I and many others had to roll back, and I > > > was advised to hold back. How will I know when to proceed? > > > > From my experience, the answer is "nearly" or "almost". Some things still > > haven't been compiled on the new ABI and so will conflict. Most things, > > however, and the majority of the KDE packages, are ready. > > I assume, rightly or wrongly, that it will be officially considered > ready when the metapackages, such as kde and kdecore, are upgraded to > depend on 3.4.2 instead of 3.3.2. > > > A couple of days ago I bit the bullet and upgraded. I had to remove a > > number > > of packages that hadn't been updated yet, like superkaramba, lyx-qt, > > koffice, > > and kwin-baghira, among ~50 others. But for me, I think losing them (only > > temporarily, I expect) was worth it. > > I now have a KDE 3.4.2 desktop with Konqueror, Konsole, KMail, KNode, > K3B, Kate, KSokoban, KPDF, KGPG and a few other things. The only > program I use regularly that's still unavailable to me is Rosegarden4, > which I expect will take some time yet. > > If a package doesn't use the 3.3.2/3.4.2 version system, an easy way > to check whether it can be installed with KDE 3.4.2 is to see if it > still depends on kdelibs4. The upgraded packages depend on kdelibs4c2 > instead. > > > Most of the functional stuff is there and ready, but not all of it. Unless > > you're really eager to transition, like I was, it's probably best to wait > > until we're given the official "all clear", which, depending on how soon > > some > > maintainers get the rear into gear, may be a week or more, yet. > > > > Peace, > > Brendon > > > > PS: Many cheers to all the maintainers involved in pulling off this, and > > all > > the other simultaneous transitions so smoothly! > > It's been a pleasure to watch the orderly way in which KDE 3.4.2 has > gone from "totally broken" to "almost completely functional" in just a > few days. Cheers indeed! > > -- > PJR :-) And are all these packages and xorg likely to move ito testing soon thereafter? Or are there other logs blocking the road?
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