Beware of KDEPIM 4.4.93 in kde-unstable

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Sep 3 11:50:21 UTC 2010


Radek Novacek wrote:

> I have just a small warning for users of kde-redhat repo.
> 
> If you installed kde 4.5.0 (or 4.5.1) from kde-unstable and let this
> repository enabled, the new kdepim (4.4.93) will arrive to you as an
> update. It is NOT stable release and MAY corrupt your PIM data (e-mails
> etc.).

Indeed.  kde-unstable is precisely that.  Now that kde-4.5.x is in kde-
testing, if that's all you want, that's all you should be using.  That 
should be safe.  kde-unstable sometimes isn't.

My sincere apologies if that wasn't entirely clear before and caught folks 
by surprise.

-- Rex



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