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Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Title: KDE3 will be masked and removed from portage |
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> > Author: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> |
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> Maybe add your self as author? Multiple "Author" fields are allowed. |
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> (And yes, UTF-8 in header fields is allowed, too. ;-) |
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> |
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Multiplied |
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> > Content-Type: text/plain |
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> > Posted: 2009-10-29 |
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> > Revision: 1 |
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> > News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> > Display-If-Installed: <kde-base/kdelibs-4 |
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> > |
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> > Please turn your KDE radio on, and make sure to turn the volume to its |
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> > maximum level for this important message. |
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> |
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> Please wrap lines at 72 characters, which is the standard for news |
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> items. |
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Wrapped |
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> |
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> > After multiple setbacks we have finally managed to stabilise KDE4 on both |
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> > major desktop architectures (amd64 and x86), where other teams are to |
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> > follow. |
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> > |
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> > This means that those of you who still use KDE3 should start considering |
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> > an upgrade right away, due to various reasons. [1] |
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> > |
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> > The KDE3 support is being dropped with immediate effect. This means that |
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> > ebuilds are dropping KDE3 support where they were broken, or clashing |
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> > with KDE4. |
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> > |
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> > If you wish to still use KDE3, and you want to help others with having |
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> > KDE3 around, drop a mail to kde@g.o, where we can give you commit |
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> > access to the special overlay which will specifically contain only KDE3 |
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> > packages. [2] |
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> |
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> I think this paragraph shouldn't be included in a news item that |
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> concerns primarily the main Portage tree. IMHO at least the part about |
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> commit access should be left out. |
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Rephrased. |
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> > Sadly upstream is not supporting KDE3 anymore and we simply lack the |
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> > manpower to keep support for both (as you might have noticed in the past |
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> > few months KDE3 has become more and more rusty for which we humbly |
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> > apologize). |
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> > |
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> > Sorry to bring you the bad news and with hope that KDE4 will suit your |
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> > needs, |
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> > |
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> > Tomas Chvatal |
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> > KDE Teams substituting Lead |
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> |
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> Omit the signature. I think it's not formally forbidden, but neither |
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> the example in GLEP 42 nor any of the news items so far had one. |
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Dropped |
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> Ulrich |
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> , |
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Thanks for help :] |
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