Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-21 Thread Mark Purcell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:01, Ben Burton wrote: > And so I will nevertheless stick with the main point of my previous post > which was, if we're going to use experimental, to argue for very clear > documentation to be available on just what to do with APT

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 20 October 2002 6:04 pm, Brian Nelson wrote: > >> That's what I said. I think Qt would be the only dependency that would >> need to be recompiled. Presumably, you could use some name-mangling >> scheme like attaching -gcc3.2 or something to t

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-20 Thread tomas pospisek
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, tomas pospisek wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ben Burton wrote: > > > > > Hi. I do have one strong concern with experimental which may be > > > ill-founded, > > > I'm not sure. It seems there are lots of inexperienced users out ther

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 October 2002 6:04 pm, Brian Nelson wrote: > That's what I said. I think Qt would be the only dependency that would > need to be recompiled. Presumably, you could use some name-mangling > scheme like attaching -gcc3.2 or something to the

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, tomas pospisek wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ben Burton wrote: > > > Hi. I do have one strong concern with experimental which may be > > ill-founded, > > I'm not sure. It seems there are lots of inexperienced users out there > > wanting to use KDE3 with debian, and I'm worri

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-20 Thread André Wöbbeking
Hi Brian, > That's what I said. I think Qt would be the only dependency that would > need to be recompiled. Presumably, you could use some name-mangling > scheme like attaching -gcc3.2 or something to the Qt libraries and > package name, in lieu of a real transition plan. > > I'll have to test t

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:29:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > >> Or, my variation of the question: Why not just build-depend on g++-3.2, >> build the packages and their dependencies (anything other than Qt?) >> explicitly with g++-3.2, and upload to unsta

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-20 Thread tomas pospisek
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ben Burton wrote: > Hi. I do have one strong concern with experimental which may be ill-founded, > I'm not sure. It seems there are lots of inexperienced users out there > wanting to use KDE3 with debian, and I'm worried we'll have people just > happily adding experimental t

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-20 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'm worried we'll have > people just happily adding experimental to their sources.list and silently > dragging in all sorts of *other* experimental packages that they didn't > want and don't realise are experimental. Ah, so thanks to Volker Schlech

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:29:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Or, my variation of the question: Why not just build-depend on g++-3.2, > build the packages and their dependencies (anything other than Qt?) > explicitly with g++-3.2, and upload to unstable or experimental. Once You'd need to comp

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-20 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > A very good start and something that could happen within hours would be > for Karolina or a DD sponser to modify the Debian changelog for her > packages and then upload to the normal debian archive. With all gratitude for Karolina's work, as the fo

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-20 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I do have one strong concern with experimental which may be ill-founded, I'm not sure. It seems there are lots of inexperienced users out there wanting to use KDE3 with debian, and I'm worried we'll have people just happily adding experimental t

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-19 Thread Bjoern Krombholz
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:29:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I know that is what is happening - what nobody has answered completely yet > > is > > WHY you can't put 2.95 compiled packages in to unstable at first and then > > follow up later with 3

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 19 October 2002 4:48 pm, Noel Koethe wrote: > >> >> We will still wait for the gcc 3.2 transition for unstable. > > I know that is what is happening - what nobody has answered completely yet is > WHY you can't put 2.95 compiled packages in t

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-19 Thread Mark Purcell
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 04:24:59PM +0200, Noel Koethe wrote: > Does anybody see any problems if we will start with kde 3.1x builds/ > uploads for experimental? A very good start and something that could happen within hours would be for Karolina or a DD sponser to modify the Debian changelog for he

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-19 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 October 2002 4:48 pm, Noel Koethe wrote: > > We will still wait for the gcc 3.2 transition for unstable. I know that is what is happening - what nobody has answered completely yet is WHY you can't put 2.95 compiled packages in to unst

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-19 Thread Josef Spillner
On Saturday 19 October 2002 16:24, Noel Koethe wrote: > Does anybody see any problems if we will start with kde 3.1x builds/ > uploads for experimental? I'm very much in favor of this. Not all KDE packages in Debian are maintained by the Debian KDE maintainers (in fact, only a minority of them is

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-19 Thread Noel Koethe
On Son, 20 Okt 2002, Mark Purcell wrote: > > Does anybody see any problems if we will start with kde 3.1x builds/ > > uploads for experimental? > > That would be excellent if you would do that and quite suitable to > upload the kde3.1x builds into unstable. > > It would also allow me to upload t

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-19 Thread Mark Purcell
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 04:24:59PM +0200, Noel Koethe wrote: > Does anybody see any problems if we will start with kde 3.1x builds/ > uploads for experimental? That would be excellent if you would do that and quite suitable to upload the kde3.1x builds into unstable. It would also allow me to upl

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal

2002-10-19 Thread Noel Koethe
On Sam, 19 Okt 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: Hello, I have to fully agree that it makes alot of sense if we use experimental for kde3 stuff. We have lost alot of time since kde3 released in which we could fix our packages and could work on packages which base on kde3. > > Yes, something like this.

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-19 Thread Martin Schulze
ReMoin! Ralf Nolden wrote: > > Ralf Nolden wrote: > > > well, as much as this would work out, someone has to do the work > > > actually. And regarding the experimental distribution - that brings your > > > work environment to a highly unstable state, not to speak about the > > > packagers having t

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-19 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 October 2002 10:39, Martin Schulze wrote: Moin Joey, > Moin Ralf! > > Ralf Nolden wrote: > > well, as much as this would work out, someone has to do the work > > actually. And regarding the experimental distribution - that brings your

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin Ralf! Ralf Nolden wrote: > well, as much as this would work out, someone has to do the work actually. > And > regarding the experimental distribution - that brings your work environment > to a highly unstable state, not to speak about the packagers having to build > the packages on this s

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-15 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:25:28 +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote: [...] >The other thing is what version of Debian users want to run KDE on. I myself >would prefer woody, although testing and unstable are fine, too. FWIW, just to register an opinion, my interest is solely in non-beta packages (just don't

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-14 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Experimental repositry idea is about damn time. Gnome2 have had it for a > while now. We need a concerted "professional" effort to get KDE3 into > the debian distribution. Just for reference, this proposal with the experimental repository has very

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-14 Thread Kai Hendry
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:25:28PM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote: > My idea would be better to create a debian.kde.org website to collect all > this > information and to host a permanent official build on ftp.kde.org. That can > be the releases as they are plus additional applications that are provid

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 October 2002 12:25 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote: > > Now, let's please be reasonable about what can be done easily and what is > desireable. Have a quick look at the current state: > Could I just clarify something about objectives. It seems to

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-13 Thread Andreas Dieling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > The other thing is what version of Debian users want to run KDE on. I > myself would prefer woody, although testing and unstable are fine, too. Packages containing the latest stable KDE release should be provided for woody. KDE betareleases should

Re: KDE3 - Debian/experimental distribution proposal (was: yes i am alive ;)

2002-10-13 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 October 2002 12:53, Mark Purcell wrote: Hi Mark, well, as much as this would work out, someone has to do the work actually. And regarding the experimental distribution - that brings your work environment to a highly unstable state, not