Ted--
Version 1.4 playlist format is incompatible with the 1.3 playlist
format. Hence people upgrading from 1.3 to 1.4, which is a much
larger portion of users than those upgrading from a beta package to
1.4, would have needed to have their current playlist removed anyways
-- instead they get a nice welcome message. When Debian users
installed the beta package, their playlist would(/should) have been
cleared anyways, so they just get to experience this twice. Since the
beta packages are, well, BETA, it wasn't worth making cases in the
codebase to check for the existence of a beta or recent SVN version
and then not clearing the playlist on that condition. More conditions
are more chances of regressions.
You should mark this a WONTFIX or CLOSED on Debian BTS. It will not
be fixed upstream, and would be a waste of a Debian dev's time.
Simply note the fact that beta software is beta software, despite
Google's abuse of the word, and get on with it.
--Jeff
Quoting Ted Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
You'll have to excuse me, I'm not familiar with the well-known figures
of the KDE project, so the novelty of the message was lost on me.
I won't tag this as wontfix or closed on the Debian BTS in case someone
decides it's worth patching (perhaps to prepend the greeting).
-Ted
