How to build from SVN

Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Sat Aug 4 10:18:50 UTC 2007


* Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:16:03 +0200]:

> Why is the source package named kde4libs as opposed to the kdelibs that 
> upstream uses?  Since the binary package names conflict anyway 
> (kdelibs-bin), I don't think the source package names need to be 
> different.

Because they are meant to be co-installable, for a reasonably long time
AIUI. (IOW, kdelibs4 should not go away when kdelibs5 appears in
unstable.)

Cheers,

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