On Monday 01 of September 2014 15:46:26 Richard Brown wrote:
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 23:05 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 01/09/14 22:03, Sean wrote:
On 01/09/2014, Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
I am just in the process of updating Factory/13.2 using 'zypper up' and it is downloading version KDE 4.11.x ! The installed version of KDE for 13.2 is 4.14.0 .
Is this downgrading correct or has something gone wrong in the repos?
Kwin and workspace remain at 4.11, as their development was stopped then. Only the applications like Dolphin and Gwenview are still updated post 4.11.
Updating is fine.
OK, thanks for this. Updating completed.
But I have to say that this is all beginning to take on the appearance of a Keystone Cops Kaper.
BC
In KDE's defence, this isn't an uncommon problem. Speaking from my experience with GNOME, there's often parts of the GNOME stack that don't move at all between releases.
In GNOME we 'deal' with this issue with pointless commits that bump the version number and nothing else so people don't notice that the application hasn't actually changed one bit since the last release.
KDE seem to have chosen a different approach which saves people from updating packages 'needlessly' when the binaries are exactly the same
I think both approaches are valid, and wouldn't describe either as having anything in common with a 'Keystones Cops Kaper'
And funny thing is, that this is 3rd release (4.12, 4.13 and now 4.14 all had the same procedure) with kde-workspace at 4.11.x... so nothing new ;-) Cheers, Hrvoje
Regards,
Richard