On 2009/04/14 00:45 (GMT+0200) Anders Johansson composed:
On Monday 13 April 2009 17:25:27 -0500 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Debian will provide security and RC-level bug fixes for KDE 3.5.9/3.5.10 that was shipped with Lenny (on the 14th of February this year) until (at least) Squeeze is released.
Which is 16+ months away.
I was not aware of that.
It's in the release notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.htm...
I have no idea what "RC-level" means, but again, it
I'm no builder nor programmer, but I have to think it means any pre-release (at RC level, as opposed to beta level) version of software included in the release will eventually be upgraded to the release version without needing to upgrade to a subsequent Debian Stable release.
will be very interesting to see how they cope.
I suspect it will not be a problem to maintain something as mature as KDE3.5.10. Maybe they'll create a fork, maybe called "KDE for people who need to get work done instead of pretending they're using Vista". As for me I'll manage to continue with 11.0 in order to avoid KDE4 on systems used for ordinary productive activities at least until 11.0 goes out of support. The time I'll need to learn the radically different way of working that is KDE4 will necessarily be subtracted from the time that would have been available to contribute to Factory development. -- "He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty." Proverbs 28:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org