[Bug 140701] kde4 beta2 packages are broken

[Marvin J.]

Public bug reported:

Hi backports-team.

Im a Kubuntu (Feisty) User and wanted to check out the kde4 beta2 to help bug-hunting. 
Following the instructions on http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde4-beta2.php I get a completely unusable Desktop: Plasma shows two "things" at the bottom that only say This 'object could not be created' and that's pretty much all of it :-(
Dolphin can be started via 'run command' (right click on Desktop) but almost no 'kde-parts' seem to work.

Many people seem to have the same kind of trouble:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=544604&page=2

According to the information provided by 'poborskii' in this forum
(Entry #46):

"Official KDE 4.0 beta 2 tarballs are probably broken and incomplete due
to some changes between modules within packaging of tarballs. Some
aplications (e.g. Kopete, Kicker) or files are missing. SVN snapshot
tarballs are probably OK. And second problem, Kubuntu didn't compile
some beta 2 modules (kdepim, kdetoys, kdeaddons are still beta 1 in
repository, gutsy and feisty-backports). And third problem, Kubuntu
didn't compile kdegraphics, kdeartwork and kdeedu for feisty-backports
until today. Beta 2 for Kubuntu is totally broken, grrr... Only
possibility is compiling from SVN."

If this is true, could someone please fix the packages or at least
remove them (temporarily) from the repo, cause right now its a multi-
100MB download for pretty much nothing.

Thanks very much and keep up the great work!

** Affects: feisty-backports
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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kde4 beta2 packages are broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140701
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