Uploads to Squeeze and the $KDEHOME dilemma

[Ana Guerrero]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:46:31AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Ana Guerrero wrote:
>> I would go for a) continue to use ~/.kde4 for KDE 4 applications. This option
>> keeps .kde for KDE3 apps data that a lot of people will have to use for some
>> time and for backuping in case users want to go back to KDE 3. Some people
>> will say here downgrades are not supported,
>
> Supporting downgrades even marginally would require keeping the KDE 3  
> packages around.  Is anyone committed to doing that?  Is that even  
> possible under the current package naming scheme?

You do not need to keep any package around, user X installs KDE 4.2 realizes
that does not like it, user can:
- install kde 3.5 from testing (yes, for limited time this one)
- install kde 3.5 from local apt cache or copy made on purpose.
- build his/her own kde 3.5 packages fetching debian/ from our repo
  (branches/lenny(
- go to snapshots.debian.net and fetches a copy from there.

And of course, never ever update kde...