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Dan Armak wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:25, Tom Wesley wrote: |
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>>Hey |
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>>I've seen several queries regarding KDE's new split ebuilds and the |
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>>version numbers used for specific packages. It seems that all of the |
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>>KDE 3.4 packages have been versioned as 3.4. |
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>>Should kmail, kopete etc not be using their own version numbers with the |
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>>meta-packages being versioned based on the kde release number? |
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>>IMO this would make more sense, especially when reading the kopete website, |
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>>finding the latest version is 0.9.2 and then noticing that portage only |
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>>has 3.4. |
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> In my experience most KDE users have no idea offhand what the individual app |
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> versions are and which versions belong to which kde.org release. They'd be |
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> confused. |
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> If a lot of users told me I'm wrong, I guess I'd be willing to concede this |
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> point... |
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> BTW, what do other distros use? |
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The only other distro I have recollection of is Debian and they have the |
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packages at the version number of the software. That is, they have a |
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kmail-1.5 being part of kde-3.3.x [1] |
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> Another problem is that there are a few KDE devs who are the same: they don't |
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> bother to put real version numbers on their apps (and especially libs), and |
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> they stay stuck at 0.0.1, or don't always receive a version number upgrade |
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> when they change. I can't find an example offhand now, but I remember seeing |
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> such before... |
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Probably. Dated version numbers could perhaps help? Stuff in |
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kdenonbeta probably suffers from never being released or versioned. |
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> And a third problem: it'd make it much easier for us to make a versioning/dep |
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> mistake (think about updating 300 differently-schemed version numbers) |
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> without noticing. |
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I can't disagree that p'masking a bucket-load of packages, all at |
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different versions will be a pain. Also, upgrading etc may require a |
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small army of gnome's (pun intended) to complete the task in a timely |
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manner. |
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Do any kde applications release outside of kde's main releases? (I have |
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a vague recollection of kopete doing this, but no others) |
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1: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/kmail |
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Tom Wesley <tom@×××××.org> |
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