Michael Stucki said, and I quote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> > > So is it just me or was not everyone aware that Debian takes long with
> > > packages
> > > and you are not going to get them righ away. If you want that then you
> > > should
> > > try Redhat. I installed KDE3 on a RedHat box and its not all
Hi Chris,
> > So is it just me or was not everyone aware that Debian takes long with
> > packages
> > and you are not going to get them righ away. If you want that then you
> > should
> > try Redhat. I installed KDE3 on a RedHat box and its not all that
> > diffrent or
> > great, its a little bi
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:13:05PM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote:
> So is it just me or was not everyone aware that Debian takes long with
> packages
> and you are not going to get them righ away. If you want that then you
> should
> try Redhat. I installed KDE3 on a RedHat box and its not all th
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 14:13, Quenten Griffith wrote:
> So is it just me or was not everyone aware that Debian takes long with
> packages
> and you are not going to get them righ away. If you want that then you
> should
> try Redhat.
snip
According to the kde developers no bug fixes are being done
So is it just me or was not everyone aware that Debian takes long with
packages
and you are not going to get them righ away. If you want that then you
should
try Redhat. I installed KDE3 on a RedHat box and its not all that
diffrent or
great, its a little bit fast and has a few new nice tools and
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On Monday 15 April 2002 6:10 pm, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> On Monday 15 April 2002 16:03, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > Packaging KDE is significantly more difficult than most other packaging
> > > tasks. KDE depends on many libraries which all have to work tog
måndagen den 15 april 2002 18.43 skrev Eray Ozkural:
> I disagree with that. Applying a patch doesn't require any working
> knowledge of programming. Your second point may be important for some
> software that needs it. I modified insight a lot, and changed some stuff in
> metis, yes I do think th
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On Monday 15 April 2002 20:42, Russell Coker wrote:
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> Really? Ivan and I must have done a damn good job then if it's no longer
> necessary to do such things!
>
> When I was doing most of the Debian packaging of KDE I was going way beyond
> the confi
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:43, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> On Monday 15 April 2002 15:41, Russell Coker wrote:
> > To do a really good job of developing Debian packages (and to have a hope
> > of doing a half-decent job of packaging something as complex as KDE) you
> > need to do a lot more. You need to be
On Monday 15 April 2002 16:03, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Packaging KDE is significantly more difficult than most other packaging
> > tasks. KDE depends on many libraries which all have to work together,
> > and compilation takes ages.
>
> Let me think of an example of a package which it ought to be ea
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On Monday 15 April 2002 12:51, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> I agree withyou when it comes to flaming _every_ person who
> asks something related to the kde3 packages. Here Eray
> don't just ask, he says that Chris Cheney is not 'fast
> enough" because it's
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On Monday 15 April 2002 15:41, Russell Coker wrote:
>
> To do a really good job of developing Debian packages (and to have a hope
> of doing a half-decent job of packaging something as complex as KDE) you
> need to do a lot more. You need to be able t
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:41:27PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 05:46, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > Packaging KDE for a particular platform is not too difficult. It is simply
> Packaging KDE is significantly more difficult than most other packaging
> tasks. KDE depends on many l
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 05:46, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> I'd like to increase the clue factor of this mailing list a bit.
>
> Disclaimer: I don't have the time to waste with flames, so buzz off if you
> intend to. I don't care about those kind of responses that I'm used to
> seeing on debian mailing lists.
I agree withyou when it comes to flaming _every_ person who
asks something related to the kde3 packages. Here Eray
don't just ask, he says that Chris Cheney is not 'fast
enough" because it's "very easy" to build kde packages.
As Ben just said, it's far from a good thing to say
something like
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:16:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Johannes Wilm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: When will it be ready?
I understand that the packagers are under a lot of pressure, but why does
everybody who just asks som
> It IS more difficult to package kde in debian, simply
> because KDE3 for mandrake and other distributions is about
> 40 packages, and KDE2 is more than 180 packages in debian
And because debian has $n$ different ports where $n$ is sufficiently large to
cause frequent major headaches.
And beca
Le Lundi 15 Avril 2002 05:46, Eray Ozkural a écrit :
> However, it is not in any way *more* difficult than
> packaging it for other distributions. So you do have the
> right to yell if we're not able to keep standard software
> up-to-date. Debian policy is not something that puts
> extreme demands
On Sunday 14 April 2002 08:46 pm, Eray Ozkural wrote:
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> I'd like to increase the clue factor of this mailing list a bit.
>
> Disclaimer: I don't have the time to waste with flames, so buzz off if you
> intend to. I don't care about those kind of r
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I'd like to increase the clue factor of this mailing list a bit.
Disclaimer: I don't have the time to waste with flames, so buzz off if you
intend to. I don't care about those kind of responses that I'm used to seeing
on debian mailing lists.
On Su
People have been getting progressively angrier about the frequency with
which this is asked, so being calm by nature I'll answer it. I'll quote
Mr Daniel Stone.
'The packages are coming very soon; most every module has a working
directory, but kdebase's is still broken; that's what Chris is workin
Guys,
I was wondering what the timetable was for the release of the KDE 3.0
.deb. You see I'm really concerned you're not taking the timing as
seriously as you should be.
I mean all I hear is how you're hurrying to finish this and that
really worries me. You see if I knew enough to recover from
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