I don't think there's any reason why this should be necessary for distros. A simple message to say "don't build krita from Calligra, build it from the standalone krita 3 now" should be enough. Of course a Calligra 3 ported to KF5 would also focus attention.
Jonathan On 2 November 2016 at 13:36, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@valdyas.org> wrote: > Hi... > > I've seen that Ubuntu has updated Krita (and Calligra) for Zesty. > Sort of yay, but it's still only 2.9.11 and that's because there > has been no release of Calligra 3, and packaging Krita 3 would > conflict with the packaging of calligra 2.9.11... > > I would say that there should be either a Calligra 2.9.12 release > without Krita, or a Calligra 3.0 release. If the problem is that > there's nobody around to make tarballs and upload a Calligra 3.0 > release, well, I can do that... > > But I really don't want distributions to go on providing Krita > 2.9 instead of 3.0 only because they're stuck with Calligra 2.9. > > -- > Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org
