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Modestas Vainius modax at alioth.debian.org
Sat Apr 2 09:52:12 UTC 2011 

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit c599a3e1feb2ea369866241af5399eaff9b2a3e9
Author: Modestas Vainius <modestas at vainius.eu>
Date:   Sat Apr 2 12:43:13 2011 +0300

    Add news entry and information for KDE SC 4.6.1.
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 <h1>News &amp; notes</h1>
-
+<p>
+<span class="newsdate">2011-04-02</span>
+KDE SC 4.6.1 (excluding kdebindings) has been uploaded. See <a href="#kdesc">below</a>.
+</p>
 <p>
 <span class="newsdate">2010-10-16</span>
 Extra entries in /etc/apt/preferences are no longer needed with <strong>apt 0.8.5</strong> or later.
@@ -93,103 +97,217 @@ Pin: release o=qt-kde,a=experimental-snapshots
 Pin-Priority: 100 (your value goes here)
 </pre>
 
-<h1>KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 packages</h1>
+<h1 id="kdesc"><a href="http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6.1.php">KDE Software Compilation (SC) 4.6.1</a> packages</h1>
 
 <p>
-Most KDE SC 4.5.1 packages have been uploaded to this repository. You can see
-<a href="debian/">here</a> exactly which ones. The rest of the packages have not been
-prepared yet, but they are not very important, so you can still enjoy most of
-KDE SC 4.5.1. The rest of the packages will be uploaded here gradually, as soon as
-they are ready. When all the packages are ready, a release is expected to be made to
-Debian experimental.
+KDE SC 4.6.1 packages have been uploaded to this repository. They should be
+considered of the same quality as you would expect from the official Debian
+experimental archive. We will do our best to ensure that users of these
+packages could upgrade to the official KDE SC 4.6.x packages once they hit
+official Debian archive. In case this upgrade could not be made flawless,
+the issues will be explained in the
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2011/04/threads.html">debian-kde at lists.debian.org
+mailing list</a> and this page. In the worst case, you may need to use
+<span class="inlinecmd">dpkg --force-* -i</span> or reinstall some KDE packages,
+but this scenario is <strong>highly unlikely</strong> to happen.
 </p>
+
 <p>
-You may consider these packages to be semi official which means that you will
-probably be able to upgrade to KDE SC 4.5.x packages which will be uploaded to
-the official Debian archive. In case this upgrade could not be made flawless,
-the issues will be explained in the <a
-href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2010/03/threads.html">debian-kde at lists.debian.org
-mailing list</a> and this page. In the worst case, you may need to use dpkg
---force-* -i or reinstall some KDE packages, although this is highly unlikely to happen.
+First of all, check out <a href="#whatsnew">What's new?</a> and
+<a href="#knownissues">Known issues</a> sections below. If you decide to upgrade,
+make sure to read upgrade notes for <a href="#notes4.4">unstable (4.4.5)</a>,
+<a href="#notes4.5">unstable+4.5.1/4.5.3</a> or <a href="#notes_wheezy">testing (wheezy)</a>
+whichever suits your current system configuration best. We would like to receive some
+feedback on the packaging issues. In particular, keep track of the upgrade process and if you
+hit some file conflicts or more serious problems, please report them to the
+<a href="mailto:debian-kde at lists.debian.org">debian-kde at lists.debian.org mailing</a>.
 </p>
+
 <p>
-If you are upgrading from KDE 4.4.5 to these packages, upgrade is expected to
-complete flawlessly without any file conflicts or more severe issues. However,
-it may not be very easy to initiate the upgrade as this repository has the same
-priority as Debian experimental (priority 1) by default. Please read upgrading
-guide below.
+Feel free to ask for help on the
+ <a href="mailto:debian-kde at lists.debian.org">debian-kde at lists.debian.org mailing</a>
+or the <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-kde">#debian-kde IRC channel at
+irc.debian.org</a>.
 </p>
+
+<h2 id="whatsnew">What's new?</h2>
+
 <p>
-For those wondering if KDE SC 4.5.1 is rather stable and usable, the answer is
-yes. However, if you are happy with KDE SC 4.4.5, just stay with it.
+Some adjustments have been made on the packaging side in order to make major KDE SC
+upgrades play better with Debian packages of the unrelated third party KDE applications.
+This means that you should no longer hit broken dependencies when installing
+almost any KDE application from the official Debian repositories alongside these
+new KDE SC 4.6 packages. During previous upgrades, there used to be some issues with
+the packages which use interfaces that are generally not be kept stable between major
+KDE SC releases. The list of such packages includes <i>ktorrent</i>, <i>kdiff3</i>, <i>kmess</i>
+and others.
 </p>
+
+<p>On the software side, probably one of the major driving factors for this upgrade
+is a noticeable improvement in the overall performance. KDE SC 4.6 is (or least
+feels) much faster and more responsive. 4.6.1 also seems to be stable enough for
+daily use. If you want to find out more about news features and enhancements
+since 4.4.5, check out official KDE release announcements for
+<a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/">4.5</a> and
+<a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.6/">4.6</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="knownissues">Known issues</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+kde-l10n-* packages have undeclared file conflicts with the
+konq-plugins-l10n package. Therefore, you should remove konq-plugins-l10n
+before upgrading. This is an unresolved issue both upstream and in packaging.
+</li>
+
+<li>
+KDE PIM (kmail, kontact etc.) will lose localization once you upgrade
+kde-l10n-* packages to 4.6.x. This is an unresolved packaging issue.
+</li>
+
+<li>
+Geo-location functions may crash digikam (unstable or experimental package).
+This is an unresolved marble packaging issue.
+</li>
+
+<li>plasma-widget-networkmanagement from testing/unstable is not compatible
+(nor installable) with these KDE SC 4.6 packages because it triggers plasma-desktop
+to crash on startup. Just use the plasma-widget-networkmanagement package
+provided in this <a href="/debian">repository</a>.
+</li>
+
+<li>
+jovie might not as good as its predecessor in 4.4.5 (kttsd) was. Some
+patches were not ported yet.
+</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<h2 id="notes4.4">Upgrade and installation notes for unstable users</h2>
+
+<p>
+You may use either <span class="inlinecmd">apt-get</span> or
+<span class="inlinecmd">aptitude</span> for all apt operations below.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+First of all, make sure that your system is up-to-date.
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+# apt-get dist-upgrade
+</pre>
+
 <p>
-You are very welcome to report packaging bugs to the <a
-href="mailto:debian-kde at lists.debian.org">debian-kde at lists.debian.org mailing
-list</a> (but not the Debian Bug Tracking System).  If you either encounter any
-unhandled file conflicts, dpkg fails or similar, you are very welcome to drop
-an email to the mailing list. Please, do not mail developers directly. You may
-also get some help on the <a
-href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-kde">#debian-kde IRC channel at
-irc.debian.org</a>
+If you are doing a fresh installation, install a KDE metapackage which meets
+your needs (either kde-standard, kde-full, kde-plasma-desktop or
+kde-plasma-netbook) as follows:
 </p>
 
-<h1>Installing or upgrading to KDE SC 4.5.1</h1>
+<pre>
+# apt-get -t eperimental-snapshots install kde-standard
+</pre>
 
 <p>
-Versions of the KDE SC packages in this repository are of the form 4:4.5.1-0rX.
+If you're upgrading existing 4.4.5 installation, simply run:
 </p>
 
-<h2>Installing on a system without previous version of KDE</h2>
 <pre>
-# aptitude -t experimental-snapshots install kde-standard
+# apt-get -t experimental-snapshots dist-upgrade
 </pre>
+
 <p>
-The first proposed solution should be what you want. Just accept it after quick review.
+As noted in the <a href="#whatsnew">What's new?</a> section, this should be the
+most smooth KDE SC upgrade since the inception of the KDE 4 packaging
+(unless you hit undeclared file conflicts or a <a href="#knownissues">known issue</a>).
+This repository also contains all needed dependencies from the official Debian experimental
+archive (akonadi, polkit-qt-1, polkit-kde-1, libktorrent, ktorrent) in order to make upgrade
+process more simple.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-NOTE: Since this repository does not contain all of KDE SC 4.5.1 packages, this command will
-probably also install some KDE SC 4.4.5 packages. Also note that although this should work,
-it has not been tested properly and you should avoid it. If you want to try KDE, it is recommended
-that you first install KDE SC 4.4.5 from testing/unstable and then if you want to upgrade,
-follow the procedure below.
+<span class="inlinecmd">apt-get</span> will probably want to remove kappfinder and
+libakonadiprivate1. In addition, the list of <span class="inlinecmd">aptitude</span>
+removals may include a bunch of other automatically-installed but no-longer-used packages
+(that's mostly lib* packages and e.g. hal). In the end, you should see a lot of packages
+versioned at -0rX being downloaded and installed.
 </p>
 
-<h2>Upgrading from KDE SC 4.4.5</h2>
+<h2 id="notes4.5">Upgrade notes for unstable+4.5.1/4.5.3 users</h2>
+
+<p>
+You may use either <span class="inlinecmd">apt-get</span> or
+<span class="inlinecmd">aptitude</span> for all apt operations below.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Once you <span class="inlinecmd">apt-get update</span>, do not attempt
+to bring the system to up-to-date unstable. This will most likely fail
+due to libkonq-common 4:4.4.5-3 attempting overwrite some files in the
+libkonq5a package.
+</p>
+
+<p>Instead just run:</p>
+
 <pre>
-# aptitude -t experimental-snapshots full-upgrade
+# apt-get -t experimental-snapshots dist-upgrade
 </pre>
+
+<p>
+Due to complications with previous 4.5.x packages, in addition to the packages listed
+in the <a href="#notes4.4">Upgrades notes for 4.4.5 users</a> section above,
+<span class="inlinecmd">apt-get</span> (or <span class="inlinecmd">aptitude</span>) may
+want to remove some of the following third-party applications: digikam, kdiff3, kmess, konq-plugins,
+ktorrent or plasma-widget-network-management. You should let apt do it. However, you will be able
+to reinstall these applications once upgrade is done.
+</p>
+
 <p>
-The first proposed solution should be what you want. Just accept it after quick review.
+What is more, users of the previous 4.5.x packages are also more likely to
+experience some undeclared file conflicts, hence you might need to rerun dist-upgrade
+command above a couple of times or force installation with:
 </p>
+
+<pre>
+# dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/package_filename.deb
+</pre>
+
 <p>
-Please note that aptitude may have to remove some third party KDE applications.
-They have to be rebuilt against newer KDE in order to be installable again.
-In this case, drop a mail to the <a
-href="mailto:debian-kde at lists.debian.org">debian-kde at lists.debian.org mailing
-list</a> or come in the <a
-href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-kde">#debian-kde IRC channel at
-irc.debian.org</a> and let us know. We could rebuild these packages on request.
+Feel free to report this kind of problems to the
+<a href="mailto:debian-kde at lists.debian.org">debian-kde at lists.debian.org mailing</a>.
 </p>
 
+<h2 id="notes_wheezy">Upgrade and installation notes for testing (wheezy) users</h2>
+
 <p>
-NOTE: compatible <i>digikam, kdiff3, ktorrent, kmess, konq-plugins and plasma-widget-networkmanagement</i> packages are provided in the repository.
+This type of installation or upgrade is not supported and was not tested. So if you
+decide to do this, you are on your own. Generally,
+<a href="notes4.4">instructions for 4.4.5 users</a> might be a good reference. However,
+before starting the upgrade, you may want to pull
+<a href="http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/kdebase">kdebase 4:4.4.5-3</a> or
+<a href="http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/quassel">quassel 0.7.1-1.1</a> (if you use it)
+binary packages from unstable:
 </p>
 
-<h1>Known issues</h1>
+<pre>
+# aptitude -t unstable install '?source-package(^kdebase$)~i' '?source-package(^quassel$)~i'
+</pre>
+
+<h2>Upgrade and installation notes for stable (squeeze) users</h2>
 
 <p>
-It has been reported that in some cases, after the upgrade some keys are not functioning correctly,
-especially the arrow keys. If you hit this issue, you can try running "setxkbmap -keycodes evdev"
-as a workaround. It is still unknown what causes that and how it can be properly fixed.
+It is unlikely that you will be able to install these packages on
+squeeze without breaking something. Also don't expect much help about
+this topic on the mailing list or the irc channel. These packages are
+not backports.
 </p>
 
-<h1>End of Life for these KDE SC 4.5.1 packages</h1>
+<h2>End of Life for these KDE SC 4.6.x packages</h2>
 
 <p>
-KDE SC 4.5.1 packages will be removed from this repository once their newer
-versions enter official Debian archive (in experimental). The
+KDE SC 4.6.x packages will be removed from this repository once their newer
+versions enter official Debian archive (either experimental or unstable). The
 repository itself will continue to exist though it will be empty most of the
 time.
 </p>

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