On Saturday April 06, 2013 12:07:57 Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > On Friday 05 April 2013 08:42:54 Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2013-04-05, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > > > What was the reason for qt-kde.debian.net then? From the page: > > Some people thinks experimental is hard. Other people dislike doing the > > copyright-documentation that is required for the official archive. And > > qt-kde.d.n also could allow people who isn't a DD/DM to put packages > > there. > > Well, qt-kde.d.n as distribution channel has probably outlived its purpose > even if it can still be useful sometimes. > > The rest of the mail will be a bit OT for this list, however, in my opinion, > users might still be interested what some of the challenges are with KDE > packaging. Actually, these are the main things which turn (have turned) me > off from KDE packaging these days. > > IMO, it is very complicated to maintain anything that is more like 5-10 > highly coupled source packages in Debian. You have to spend so much time on > internal development infrastructure (constantly) that little time (or > motivation) remains to do actual packaging changes. And as far as I know, > KDE approaches 100 source packages, so do the math (funtunately, the number > of core packages is low). Especially, it is very expensive (in terms of > both time and knowledge required) to start KDE packaging for the first time > or "resume" work after longer time of inactivity. > > I wish there was some "Continuous integration" for KDE packaging which took > the load of: > > * Package building and dependency management. > * Package uploading to development repository for testing. > * Automatted Lintian reports and other Q/A. > * Any other repetitive, boring but useful tasks. > Isn't this essentially what Kubuntu's Project Neon is (perhaps was, I'm not sure)? It means packaging git trunk rather than just tarballs, but that is probably a good thing. Sincerely,
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