On Saturday 03 July 2010 23:43:40 Eike Hein wrote:
On 07/03/2010 06:56 PM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> Fine. K. then. I guess I am getting confused. But that means that I will
> not always know what package goes with what package which means that I
> will not be able to rely on the relative stability of whats coming out
> of kde-redhat. Bummer really since I've been with the repo for a very
> very long time. Bummer, because I won't have the resources to be able to
> help, what little I can, because I'm never going to be sure of how tight
> the integration between all the packages are going to be in the repo
> that they're sitting in. Bummer since kde-redhat has become an extension
> of the kde release cycle rather than the kde packaged for fedora release
> cycle. I guess that once 4.5 goes gold I will have to rely only on
> Fedora's stable packaging. I guess that's OK, because I know that the
> final product when its finally going to be released is going to be
> great. Really a bummer for me though, because I have enjoyed very much
> watching how each full release has progressed over time.
You're not making any sense there, to be honest.
The situation with kdepim is that it won't be ready to be released
with KDE 4.5.0, but only a bit later; it is going to be released
with 4.5.1 or 4.5.2. Hence kdepim is currently at beta1, while
the rest of the KDE SC is already at rc1.
However, kde-unstable has already shipped both KDE SC 4.5 beta1
and beta2 (as well as betas of previous KDE SC releases, including
the respective kdepim betas!), so kde-unstable is obviously OK to
cary beta-level KDE releases for a long time.
There's a beta of a kdepim release. It's going into kde-unstable.
Just like the beta of kdepim 4.4. And 4.3. And 4.2. ...
There's nothing unusual about this, except that the production
release of kdepim 4.5 is delayed a bit beyond the release of the
rest of the SC.
> Eli
The fuss is.... The developers are saying that kdepim 4.5 is not ready for
prime time and will not be released with kde 4.5. In unstable we have the kde
4.5 packages. We are all testing kde 4.5 not 4.5.1. It is not unforseable that
me you or someone else, on purpose or by accident or for whatever reason
installs kdepim 4.5 on a production desktop. Could be they are not part of the
mailing list. Or missed the statements that kdepim is not going to be released
with 4.5. Now.... lets assume that there are even minor changes to the way
kdepim talks to akonadi. The database changes. Queries change. Imap databases
get corrupted. Addressbook data gets modified. Now.... rollback. Exactly how
does one propse that gets done.
Yes there is the risk that can happen with schedualed for release versions.
Its happened already. Hasn't it?
Eli
Eli
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