[Bug 316889] Re: [jaunty] we should have both Amarok 2.x and Amarok 1.4

[Jonathan Thomas]

This is quite impossible, which is why this bug is marked as Won't Fix.
Amarok 1.x itself has been officially marked as unmaintained by the Amarok developers, and according to policy we cannot adding new packages of unmaintained software. Amarok 1.x in a KDE4-only environment such as Kubuntu 8.10 or 9.04 is also a bit crippled, as it relies on KDE3 components that have been replaced by KDE4 components. Moving files to trash is impossible, for instance, because the trash kio slave which was part of KDE3's kdebase is gone, since kdebase is now at its KDE4 version. Unrelated to KDE3 vs KDE4,  iPod support would also have to be removed, as Amarok 1.x is incompatible with the new libgpod versions. Last.fm support is also busted in Amarok 1.4. The software is dead and would be really buggy even if included.

And even if everybody at Kubuntu really, really wanted to make an amarok
1.4 package, at this point in time it would be pretty much impossible
since we are past Feature Freeze, User Interface Freeze, and String
freeze, meaning that a new package would be totally out of the question.

I'm sorry, but Amarok 1.4 packages just can't happen.

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[jaunty] we should have both Amarok 2.x and Amarok 1.4
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