How to get useful bug fixes for KDE 4.4. without automatically upgrading to 4.5?

[Clay Weber]

On Monday 15 February 2010 11:51:51 am Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Clay and Everybody
> 
> >.... Basically, don't enable these ppa's at all if stability this is your
> >main concern.
> 
> In general, I would agree with this taking into account what happened
> last week. On the other hand: I have now a KDE 4.4. configuration at
> the desktop and I do not want to roll it back to 4.3. That's why I am
> looking for some way to keep receiving updates for 4.4. without
> upgrading to 4.5.  - until I have everything closed.
> 
> 
> (snip)
> 
> > 4.5 won't be made available for karmic, and as Lucid will have 4.4, this
> > should not be an issue if you don't use ppa's then. 4.4 will be available
> > in the ppa for Karmic at least until after work begins on Lucid+1
> 
> Does this imply that:
> 
> ... I can keep the ppa (backport) open before I will upgrade from
> Karmic to Lucid in May, in order to receive updates for KDE 4.4., but
> without being upgraded to 4.5?

If you keep the ppa, then at some point that ppa will have newer KDE releases 
for Lucid. 4.5 is still a ways off, btw, there isn't even  a release schedule 
for it as far as I can see. 

> ... I can safely close the backport at my production partition after
> upgrading to Lucid?

yes, unless you want newer versions quicker

> > 4.3.5 made it to the (non-ppa) regular backports repo after some
> > testing time in the ppa.....
> 
> Do you mean that 4.3.5. is now a part of the normal Karmic repository?
> In other words: if I fresh- install Kubuntu Karmic (Netbook remix) at
> my new netbook and afterwords install all the updates, the netbook
> will have a configuration with KDE 4.3.5.?

Only if you enable the "Unsupported Updates" in Kpackagekit - this is the 
Ubuntu backports repository


> Thanks, respectfully yours,
> 
> Bas.

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