Re: New packages available

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Christian Muehlhaeuser wrote:

> > > The own QT packages would be the most important at the moment, because
> > > as the mailings about "Runaway processes" showed a
> > > all-cpu-time-consuming kded is the biggest problem at the moment.
> >
> > The problem with having your own QT Packages is that you'll exclude all
> > Debian Developpers from using your packages if they are doing anything
> > KDE/Qt related - since they won't be able to build their packages against
> > mainline qt libs...
>
> please explain to me, why this should happen? i cant see any reason, since i'm
> buildiing qt-copy.

I have not verified it, but I suppose that your KDE packages depend on
libqt from http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aschultz/debian/unstable/.
Taken that I want to install your KDE packages [1] - that will force me to
unstall libqt from aschultz. That means if I build my package (xxdiff),
which depends on libqt, it'll depend on libqt3c102_3.2.1-6+as1, which is
not an option. Or am I misslead and there is some way around it?

Releasing a package that I don't run myself (that is: built in a chroot,
with libqt from debian-sid or testing) is not an option for me, since I
want to eat my own dogfood and be able to react to user's bugreports.

Comments?
*t


[1] which I would because konqueror from orth's build is pretty
    unusable/unstable for me - crashing _a lot_ - not fun to depend on for
    work.

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