On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 <tux99-...@uridium.org> wrote: >> > Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1 on >> > Mandriva and Trinity is even more so being developed with coexistence in >> > mind, so there shouldn't be any unsolvable issues. >> >> Maybe it did coexist well at a significant cost on the packaging side? >> (time, packaging compromises) and maybe the situation isn't exactly >> the same as then? >> >> > This is exactly what I would call a reasonable factual argumentation. >> >> But an argument is not going to make anyone progress one way or the >> other here obviously. If there are fears, then provide facts to >> counter them (no argument, but facts). >> >> You propose to add TDE in the repository. After this discussion, the >> next step is you to first package TDE, build and test and >> see/demonstrate how it goes, regarding at least these 5 points >> (summarized from above) before an integration is considered: >> 1. no conflict on files >> 2. install in %_prefix (not in /opt) >> 3. no duplicate software name (do not confuse user to decide between >> tde-k3b and k3b for instance - or find a realistic workaround use >> case). >> 4. at this point, no apps outside of the TDE project should require TDE >> 5. committed maintainers >> >> Romain > > also promising to maintain qt3 as long as it's needed and here, the same > thing, not conflicting with qt4 in any way >
How could a packager propose to maintain qt3 when it's been dead upstream for years? so no upstream support/patches/whatever... -- Ahmad Samir