On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > FYI and to anyone else reading. The direction I have gone with the > packaging of KDE for Debian has not changed since day 1. I have focused > on conforming to Debian policy (which I have mostly done already) and > making the user base happy (breaking down of the packages) which is what > I am focusing on now. > > I have had over the period of time that I hosted these packages on > kde.tdyc.com > had a crapload of broken packages. The ol' "it work's here" factor seems > to work just as well today as it did back then. Until upstream settles down > a bit and the source of problems focus's more on how I put them together we > will still see bugs like the ones you see. > > You should see the list of porting issues I'm dealing with...up until now > the KDE2 stuff hasn't been looked at beyond i386 and powerpc (for woody) and > it shows. :) So I'm doing alot of work with that. > > Not once has any other Debian developer told me what to do (at least not > since Branden told me to fix kdm from breaking xdm like almost 2 years ago). > The extent that any other person has done have been requests...and I treat > them as I do requests I get from folks like yourself.
Point taken. I retract my critique of this instance - it just looked like that was what was happening. > > the other bugs I chalked up to beta. xerrors is about 50K and I have not > > really figured out what is relevant yet - although I suspect the new > > non-ssl linking scheme ... > > This is a possiblity...I haven't tested this whole thing alot. But, since > your using woody, you are a beta tester and thus are my guinnee pig! muhaha I have it on two (other) machines - one has not yet been updated from the first beta4 debs. I'll see if I can get anything more specific for you. I hac to leave during the upgrade and missed the errors. There is also a depends conflict between kdelibs3 (-dev?) and kdeutils-dev that means you must force the selection in dselect (hits an endless depends loop). Also, qt2.2-dev causes a dselection of mesag-glide and friends that leads to the driver for voodoo cards; this is very difficult to get out of (you must mark the Utah 3D library) and if the glide/voodoo driver gets installed on a non-voodoo machine its kind of messy ... Specifics on linking I will try to look into - I actually have KDE sources on hand so I may try the build with your debian/rules and see if anything sticks out. > Well, I thank you for the high blood pressure and the doctors >visit. :) Sorry about all the racket - I just really had to get it off my chest, and, hey, its good for the circulation ;-]. Erik PS. I have offered to help with KDE before and the offer still stands. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]