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

[Modestas Vainius]

Hello,

On sekmadienis 17 Liepa 2011 04:46:11 Joey Hess wrote:
> 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?

Hmm, maybe it's not a bad idea. I will think about it.

> > 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?

Sorry, forgot to ping you. It's already in testing.


-- 
Modestas Vainius <modax at debian.org>
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