Backporting KDE 3.5.1

[John Dong]

On 2/6/06, Martin Meredith <mez at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> 1) dapper sources already adjuested
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> 2) less load on riddell's servers, better support- official, stuff like
> that. - plus people will get it through backports - less hassle for people
> - means they have nice things easily.


Ok, awesome, works for me :-), just curious and that's all.

I have a system that I could use for testing, but currently it's not a good
time... One of my testing machines is running KUbuntu Breezy but has
recently turned into a pretty heavily used Python / Embedded Linux
development system.

Riddell and I have been working on this for about a week now :D
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> lol - oh - and correction: things wont need to be re-backported just the
> KDE 3.5.1 packages that arent base (kde-games etc)
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> John Dong wrote:
> > (1) Is it actually possible to get that done without adjusting Dapper
> > sources?
> >
> > (2) What is the advantage of doing this through Backports vs Riddel's
> > wonderful Kubuntu repositories?
> >
> >
> > On 2/6/06, *Martin Meredith* <mez at ubuntu.com <mailto:mez at ubuntu.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Ok, so - well - I'm currently backporting KDE 3.5.1 ... it's a pain
> >     in the
> >     ass-  but we're getting there.
> >
> >     Anyways - it's a big job for one person - is anyone else out there
> >     willing
> >     to help me test backports?
> >
> >     Once I've got the base stuff done I'll release a pbuild tar.gz...for
> >     people to use.
> >
> >     But- yeah - everything from
> >     http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy-backports/kde/ is going to need
> >     re-backporting.
> >
> >     So ... anyone willing to help?
> >
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