Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:38:35 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:37:53PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > (Non-exhaustive) testing shows that this allows the upgrade to proceed > > and get an acceptable (or even good) result, even when kwin styles are > > ins

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:37:53PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > (Non-exhaustive) testing shows that this allows the upgrade to proceed > and get an acceptable (or even good) result, even when kwin styles are > installed. These style packages are left installed after the upgrade, > but that sh

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 16:54:11 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > Hi, > > adding deity@ to cc as I need help with this. Context: the upgrade path > from kde3 (in lenny) to kde4 (in squeeze) is non-trivial, and I'm hoping > we can still improve it. It's very, very late though, so maybe not. > tl;

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Thursday 13 January 2011 18:50:15 Julien Cristau wrote: omething like that, and make the conflics versioned? > > David suggested to remove the kdesktop alternative from libkonq5's > Depends. With this, konqueror doesn't get removed anymore. I think that's a good idea. to remove that alternat

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 18:32:17 +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2011 16:54:11 Julien Cristau wrote: > > > So apt wants to keep kdesktop, while the new kdebase-workspace-bin > > Breaks it, kdebase-bin Conflicts with it, as does libkonq5-templates. > > > > ModaX, can you clari

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Thursday 13 January 2011 16:54:11 Julien Cristau wrote: > So apt wants to keep kdesktop, while the new kdebase-workspace-bin > Breaks it, kdebase-bin Conflicts with it, as does libkonq5-templates. > > ModaX, can you clarify why these Breaks/Conflicts are there? libkonq5-templates has is a ful

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-13 Thread Julien Cristau
I forgot one point... > So apt wants to keep kdesktop, while the new kdebase-workspace-bin > Breaks it, kdebase-bin Conflicts with it, as does libkonq5-templates. > In the end apt *does* end up removing kdesktop, but: Investigating kdesktop Package kdesktop has broken dep on kdebase-bin Consid

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-13 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi, adding deity@ to cc as I need help with this. Context: the upgrade path from kde3 (in lenny) to kde4 (in squeeze) is non-trivial, and I'm hoping we can still improve it. It's very, very late though, so maybe not. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 00:53:14 +0200, Modestas Vainius wrote: > First of al

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-12 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On trečiadienis 12 Sausis 2011 16:44:31 Julien Cristau wrote: > I'm afraid I'm a bit concerned about this metapackage stuff. Why > weren't the metapackages from lenny kept around to help upgrades, with > kde and kde-core depending e.g. on the new kde-standard metapackage? No. First of al

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-12 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On trečiadienis 12 Sausis 2011 17:10:33 Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 14:34:12 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > > I'm afraid I'm a bit concerned about this metapackage stuff. Why > > we

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-12 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 02:34:12PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > It happened to me upgrading my first kde desktop today, which resulted > in a completely not working KDE enviroment: after logging in, a scrambled > desktop background appeared and nothing else. Of course, I did > a whole upg

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 14:34:12 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > I'm afraid I'm a bit concerned about this metapackage stuff. Why > weren't the metapackages from lenny kept around to help upgrades, with > kde and kde-core

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 14:34:12 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > It happened to me upgrading my first kde desktop today, which resulted > in a completely not working KDE enviroment: after logging in, a scrambled > desktop background appeared and nothing else. Of course, I did > a whole upgr

Bug#609255: KDE upgrading

2011-01-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
It happened to me upgrading my first kde desktop today, which resulted in a completely not working KDE enviroment: after logging in, a scrambled desktop background appeared and nothing else. Of course, I did a whole upgrading, because that (multi-user) desktop had many different desktop environmen