[Pkg-kde-talk] KDE 3.4.2 Notes

[Christopher Martin]

On July 26, 2005 07:44, Adeodato Simó wrote:
>   http://dev.kubuntu.org.uk/~jr/kubuntu/ADMIN.diff

Thanks. I've committed a version of this patch updated to work with 3.4.2's 
admin dir.

>   Sure, go ahead. Please remember to commit different things separately,
>   and to be a bit more verbose in the changelog when appropriate (ok, I
>   probably exceed myself some times, so only "a bit more"). :)

OK, I've broken the commits into manageable chunks. As for more verbose, 
I'll have another look and add more details.

>   Also, can we loose this from arts?:
> >  * Bump build-depends on libmad-dev, to ensure that we build against a
> > version that sets shlibs. Once this package is uploaded to unstable,
> > this will be sufficient to ensure that all of KDE depends on a fixed
> > libmad0, as arts is at the bottom of KDE's dependency chain.
>
>   I was going to argue that we should remove it because it makes the
>   work of backporters harder (*waves to Ervin*). But seeing that the
>   fixed version is even in stable, we should remove it then because it
>   really makes no sense now. =)

Good point; done.

> > Notably, to get kdebase 3.4.2 to build, I had to upgrade to glibc
> > 2.3.5. See bug #317363 for details. We can probably hack around this
> > problem, but if glibc 2.3.5 is planned for Sid soon (anyone know?),
> > then perhaps we won't have to.
>
>   Well, glibc 2.3.5 is planned for Sid, but not RSN AFAIK. OTOH, I've
>   heard about the possibility of glibc in sid getting some fixes to make
>   other important packages (util-linux, db4.3) not FTBFS with gcc4. I
>   will stay tuned to see if this finally happens, and if it does and we
>   can provide such fix, sneak it in.

Since uploading kdebase is still some time away, probably, I guess we can 
just watch the situation for now.

Cheers,
Chris
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