[Debconf-devel] Bug#631769: Bug#631769: New Kde frontend based on debconf-kde-helper

[Joey Hess]

Modestas Vainius wrote:
> I pushed my changes to the debconf.git close on wagner [1], branch debconf-
> kde. Could you review and merge changes?
> 
> 0a4843c Add NEWS entry about Kde frontend.
> a7a0282 Add new Kde frontend that is based on debconf-kde-helper.
> 0db0aaf Close file handles on Passthrough frontend shutdown.
> aad24e6 Allow Passthrough child class to initialize file handles.
> cd4e468 Add possiblity to timeout while waiting for the reply in Passthrough 
> frontend.
> 06fba12 Make it clear which commands are passed through in debug output.
> 59df459 Add Debian/{FrontEnd,Element}/Qt* to debian/copyright.
> 3ae06bf Rename current Kde frontend to Qt.
> d0ebe97 Enable multimaintainer mode.
> 
> Notably, I renamed old Kde frontend to Qt (3ae06bf). Sune asked me to keep old 
> frontend for now as he might try to keep qt4-perl alive. However, I think 
> there is a consensus that debconf-kde-helper based one is the future so maybe 
> we will get rid of that old frontend regardless in the end. That's still to be 
> decided.
> 
> Regarding the last commit (0a4843c - NEWS entry), Kde frontend will stop 
> working for its users unless they install debconf-kde-helper. I don't see how 
> we can avoid this breakage via dependencies thus I added a NEWS entry. 
> Surprisingly, there was no NEWS file before so I don't know if you want to add 
> it. So feel free to ignore that commit.

Couldn't some kde metapackage pull in debconf-kde-helper?

> P.S. debconf-kde-helper has just entered unstable but it's too old. I will 
> work with maintainer to get updated version to unstable ASAP and then I will 
> version debconf-kde-helper Suggests appropriately. I will let you know.

What's the status of getting the right version in?

-- 
see shy jo
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