testing kaboom - how to?

[Sune Vuorela]

On Monday 16 March 2009 00:18:34 George Kiagiadakis wrote:
> 2009/3/15 Sune Vuorela <debian at pusling.com>:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I guess we are about a stage now where we need to figure out the exact
> > steps on how to get the kde324 migration app, kaboom, full scale tested
> > across the users of experimental.
> >
> > First, we need to get a list of remaining issues that we know should get
> > fixed.
> >
> > Then, I think we should upload a "kaboom" that does not abort
> >
> > and upload kdelibs and kdebase-workspace with appropriate patches and
> > conflicts/depends/shlibs
> >
> > Issues in Kaboom:
> > A cancel button that makes kaboom exit 1
> > Maybe move kaboom from /usr/bin to /usr/lib/something, as it is not a
> > application that users sholud run manually.
>
> There is also the size calculation bug (as reported in irc) that I
> hope to fix next weekend.

I saw some code from you regarding this. Is it considered fixed ?

> And also there are of course translations to be done, but this is not
> important at this stage imho.

Agreed.

> > - maybe add a debconf notice?  aboun kaboom to kdelibs ?
>
> A debconf notice is necessary imho. And if possible, prompt the user
> to abort (optionally) and switch to tty1 to do the complete upgrade,
> as starting new applications in the running kde environment may be
> disastrous.

I will look at a debconf notice hopefully this week. if someone want to beat 
me to it, feel free.

Does anyone have patches for startkde integration ?

/Sune
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