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2009/11/4 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>: |
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> We have been having a discussion on the KDE mailing list over the last |
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> few days and a couple of us Gentoo users have "issues". KDE 4 is just |
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> not ready quite yet. I firmly believe it will be in the next few months |
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> and with each upgrade it gets better. As I wrote on the KDE list a |
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> short time ago, some of us feel that we are having KDE 4 forced on us |
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> when it is not ready just because KDE 3.5 is not being maintained. I'm |
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> not pointing at Gentoo here because this appears to be coming from |
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> upstream. Gentoo can't provide packages when upstream is not updating. |
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> What my point, and the point from others is, we need KDE 3.5 to be in |
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> the tree until at least KDE 4.4 or even better KDE 4.5 is released. I |
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> have faith that KDE 4 will be ready and fully usable by that point. |
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> Surely this can be done somehow. If not, KDE needs to rethink how they |
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> do this next time so that it can. It's not like KDE is new on the block. |
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> Just to be clear, I don't think this is a Gentoo problem but a problem |
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> with how KDE is handling the releases. It sounds like KDE has dropped |
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> the ball on KDE 3.5 a little bit early. I'm not a dev so I could be |
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> wrong here. |
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I agree with you that KDE4 is not yet up to the standards of stability and |
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usability we are used to in KDE3. However, both KDE and Qt upstream |
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have de facto dropped support for their respective version 3. This means |
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nobody is looking at security issues for those old versions. We cannot be |
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expected to do that job for them, and do not want to maintain versions |
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no longer supported upstream with possibly unknown security bugs. |
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As you say, it is indeed an upstream problem, which forces our hand. |
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But to extend a hand to those users who want to stick with the old versions |
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and are willing to take possible security risks, we have started the kde3 |
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overlay. And we are happy to help "lowly" users like you to get the skills |
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to co-maintain those packages in the overlay. |
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As it is now, we have no Gentoo developer who is committed to maintain |
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both Qt3 and KDE3, and we feel it is irresponsible to leave those |
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unmaintained in the tree. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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