KDE upgrades and HAL

[O. Sinclair]

Art Alexion wrote:
> The recent thread on whether kde 3.5.6 will be backported to Dapper made me 
> think of this possibility.
> 
> I upgraded the KDE in Breezy to 3.5.4 (I think that was the last version 
> Jonathan Riddel posted).  A dist-upgrade to Dapper went terribly wrong.  I 
> fixed most things, but could never get hald to daemonize causing a lot of 
> problems with iPods, samba mounts, etc.  I just read in the mentioned thread 
> that Dapper shipped with 3.5.2.  
> 
> My dist-upgrade retained 3.5.4, which I have since upgraded to 3.5.5.  Could 
> this have been the cause of the hellish dist-upgrade?  Any suggestions for a 
> fix other than a fresh install?
> 
This quote from Mepis site might have some hints and could/should maybe 
also be read by those having an ongoing argument in another thread re 
upgrades. The quote is about the their coming release. Mepis is 
Dapper-based;
"Q. Why isn't KDE 3.5.5 included?
A. Starting with KDE 3.5.4 the KDE Project began changing the software 
technology they use for media notification. For example, they now 
require a newer version of libhal. That library is not compatible with 
the MEPIS/Dapper packages. For our purposes, KDE 3.5.4 and KDE 3.5.5 are 
unstable. If we updated to either of them, some functionality would be 
broken."

Sinclair