Updates, upgrades, and PPA's, oh my....

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:57:39 +0800 Kwan Chan <chanyunkwan0217 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>I think Kubuntu should provide kde bug fixed release(like kde 4.3.4, kde
>4.3.3) as stable packages like opensuse does.
>Because these kde release is meant for slight improvement. I mean kde 4.3.4
>should be more stable than kde 4.3.2, however, ubuntu user have to upgrade
>from a ppa repository. And upgrading to the kde 4.3.4 makes Kubuntu even
>more unstable. Then a kde+ubuntu fan is actually losing the meaning of
>upgrading to the latest stable kde release.
>For me, I happened to experience that. After a fresh installation of
>kubuntu, I added the ppa repository for kde 4.3.4 then did a dist-upgrade.
>Plasma can't even startup after reboot.
>
>Is it because of the poor quality of the kde packages for kubuntu?
>Are the kde packages on the ppa repository is directly copy from debian
>sid?

Both 4.3.3 and 4.3.4 have upstream regressions.  While they may, overall, 
be better, we promise -updates will be regression free.  Based on the 
experience so far, these are not suitable for regular updates.  

Scott K