[ubuntu-motu] Re: KDE 4 uploads to universe

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:02:04AM +0100, Stefan Potyra wrote:
> Do I get it right that you ask for an UVF exception for NEW packages (rather 
> than for updates)?

Both.

> What do you think will be the major gain from putting these into universe 
> instead of e.g. using an alternate repository?

So they are available to everyone, and so I don't have to build them
on multiple architectures.

> Do you think the kubuntu team will be able to support these packages post 
> feisty e.g. via SRUs?

No

> Also reading from the spec that configuration files will be in .kde4 won't be 
> migrated to .kde once KDE4 is in place makes me a little bit sceptical about 
> the general upgrade path post feisty. Can you elaborate on this a little bit?

Since they're unstable and pre-beta there is no upgrade path for user
settings.

Jonathan