Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1995 mails)

[Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have no idea what you're talking about here. There is no technical way to
> "build a kde3 package against kde4". The problem is in the name. kdiff3 now,
> despite the name, is a kde4 package. Version 0.90 was the last kde3 version,
> later versions are kde4. Not "kde3 built against kde4", but actually ported to
> kde4. You cannot build them against kde3, the code has changed.

Then why not PULL the package until it's fixed?  If the contributor
isn't responding, then his work isn't worth having.  How long has this
been going on?

> This is the point. The kde3 version should have stayed at version 0.92, and
> later versions should have been renamed something like kde4-kdiff3

Ok, then can that be done and the zypper links fixed so that if you
have KDE3 installed it is ignored?  I have no idea how a lot of this
is done.
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