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Hi, Today I see that the supplementary KDE release area of my chosen SuSE mirror (<ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source/>) contains Kat 0.5.3. However, there is no mention of such a release on the Kat home page (<http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22135>)! There is a mention of a bug whose fix will be included in an upcoming 0.5.3 release. I guess this means someone at SuSE is fond of Kat... Does anyone here know how these "supplementary" releases are managed and who (organizationally) has the responsibility for producing them? By the way, should anyone be tempted to run the version 0.5.3, you might want to hold off. It just crashed for me with a SIGSEGV while indexing. 0.5.2 may have hung while indexing, but it didn't crash and you could save a partial index after canceling the stalled indexing operation. Thanks. Randall Schulz
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On Wednesday 25 May 2005 15:41, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Today I see that the supplementary KDE release area of my chosen SuSE mirror (<ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/y ast-source/>) contains Kat 0.5.3. However, there is no mention of such a release on the Kat home page (<http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22135>)! There is a mention of a bug whose fix will be included in an upcoming 0.5.3 release.
That's not the kat homepage. That's the kde-look page for it. The home page is kat.sourceforge.net, and on http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131039 you can see that 0.5.3 is available. kde-look is an independent web site similar to freshmeat where kde relevant packages may or may not be announced. It's not a site to bet your mortgage on
I guess this means someone at SuSE is fond of Kat...
Does anyone here know how these "supplementary" releases are managed
They're not
and who (organizationally) has the responsibility for producing them?
No one has that responsibility. supplementary packages are provided as an optional extra, as and when someone feels like building. It is not a guaranteed service by any means The person building the package should be visible in the package changelog
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Anders, On Wednesday 25 May 2005 07:01, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 15:41, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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That's not the kat homepage. That's the kde-look page for it. The home page is kat.sourceforge.net, and on
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131039
It sure isn't easy to find via an Internet search, for some reason. I only learned of Kat via the KDE-Look RSS feed, which is why I never found the actual home page, I suppose. There actually is a SuSE 9.3 RPM of 0.5.3 on the Kat "showfiles" page, but it requires a version of libsqlite that is not present on my system, which is not true of the RPM on the SuSE supplementary for KDE mirror.
you can see that 0.5.3 is available.
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Does anyone here know how these "supplementary" releases are managed
They're not
and who (organizationally) has the responsibility for producing them?
No one has that responsibility. supplementary packages are provided as an optional extra, as and when someone feels like building. It is not a guaranteed service by any means
That makes no sense. The primary server is SuSE / Novell's. Someone build the RPMs there and someone built the Kat 0.5.2 and 0.5.3 RPMs that appeared there recently. Surely the primary server is not writable by the world, hence there are those with the privileges to add packages there. These are the people to whom I'm referring.
The person building the package should be visible in the package changelog
OK. Randall Schulz
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On Wednesday 25 May 2005 16:32, Randall R Schulz wrote:
That makes no sense. The primary server is SuSE / Novell's. Someone build the RPMs there and someone built the Kat 0.5.2 and 0.5.3 RPMs that appeared there recently. Surely the primary server is not writable by the world, hence there are those with the privileges to add packages there. These are the people to whom I'm referring.
Yes indeed, people need permissions to do it. But it is no one's responsibility. The packages provided there are completely unofficial and are on an "if we feel like it" basis. They are usually very good with providing the latest kde rpms, but it is no one's job to do it, at least not in the supplementary directory.
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