Am Sonntag, 12. April 2009 05:06:23 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On Sunday, 2009-04-12 at 04:46 +0200, Sven Burmeister wrote:
But even if that bug was in a package which was part of an openSUSE release, it is still up to the devs to decide whether the costs outweigh the benefits of fixing it, since KDE3 is a dead end and that time could be spent on KDE4 which will replace it.
The problem the OP poster reported is that an upgrade from the OBS of KDE3 upgraded a package to KDE4. That should not happen, dead end or not.
Not necessarily bound to this thread but what do you expect if people use the 11.2 DVD to upgrade their KDE3 system?
The metaproblem, however, is more general, not only kde 3 or 4: that bugs in current release should be fixed, even if it is in the OBS.
I cannot speak for other projects but KDE3 is a dead end and not part of the next release so that makes its priority very low. Using OBS packages does not increase that assessment. KDE4 bugs in OBS packages, except for UNSTBALE, are fixed. I'm not sure if there is any other project as big as KDE that has two major versions in parallel but I think in case of KDE3 it is absolutely comprehensible that there are just too little resources to bother about its low-priority (e.g. screensaver) and/or OBS bugs if the community does not want to take care of it. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org