Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (180 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Onsdag 07 januar 2009 11:23:49 skrev Dirk Müller:
> > With no place for 4.2. Maybe it would be best to address that problem
> > right away.
>
> Well, it is a ressource issue. we could in theory start a KDE:KDE42, but
> somebody has to maintain it. One of the main reasons for the current
> repository layout is that it is the way we work anyway, so it doesn't add
> work.
>
> maintaining a seperate KDE 4.2 is possible, if either:
>
> a) 11.2 comes sooner than anticipated at the moment (leaving a KDE 4.2.x
> based desktop the only option)
>
> or
>
> b) we've developed based on KDE 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 on :Factory and are
> reasonable confident that we can move it into :STABLE before switching to
> KDE 4.3.
>
> c) we move it into a seperate project as soon as KDE 4.3 is entering
> Factory, and let it RIP there.

I think "c)" would be my preference. If/when 4.3 beta is moved to Factory - 
better to have unmaintained 4.2 packages in a separate repo for 2-3 months - 
than no 4.2 at all.
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