Hallo, für alle die nicht auf der opensuse-kde Mailingliste mitlesen. Da hier immer mal wieder nach dem richtigen KDE4-Repo gefragt wird hier eine Mail die Will Stephenson vor zwei Tagen gepostet hat. Es soll KDE 4.3.4 als Update für die 11.2 geben. MfG Marco Will Stephenson, 05.12.09 on opensuse-kde:
The KDE and maintenance teams are taking the unprecedented step of a point release update to KDE SC 4.3.4 in our 'STABLE' repository and from then as an online update to 11.2. Normally we don't do version updates in online updates, preferring to backport patches to the released version.
I'll be straight with you; the impetus for doing this comes from putting 4.3.4 on an enterprise product and we don't want to maintain two 4.3 codebases, but we're confident that this is a good thing for openSUSE users, because:
- 4.3.4 has 2 months' more upstream bugfixing in it, compared to 4.3.1. This includes a major Plasma performance bug fix.
- 4.3.4 is the final planned release in the KDE 4.3 series and will therefore have the longest shelf life. It will be easier to apply future fixes from the KDE 4.3 branch to 4.3.4 packages than to 4.3.1 packages.
- having 4.3.4 on an enterprise product gives us additional reasons (customers' money!) to fix bugs in it, benefitting openSUSE users too.
- We are aware that any version update has the potential to include regressions, but:
- 4.3.4 is a point release with only bugfixes and translation updates
- we've seen a lot of use of the KDE:43 repo from 11.2 users without a lot more bugs
- other distributions have already shipped 4.3.2 and are going to push point releases as online updates as well
We have consulted the openSUSE maintenance team, who were in favour of this move. The online update will take place after a period of testing 4.3.4 on 11.2 in KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop.
The sole drawback to this that we're aware of is that this will be a large online update download; we hope you will agree the benefits will be worth it.
Season's greetings!
Will
-- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex