[Mageia-dev] Suggestion of roadmap for kde on mageia once cauldron is reopened

Sun May 27 10:33:07 CEST 2012

2012/5/27 Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org>:
+> Le samedi 26 mai 2012 17:26:54 Maurice Batey a écrit :
+>> On Sat, 26 May 2012 08:31:29 -0400, John Balcaen wrote:
+>> > our mageia 1 is providing the "legacy" kmail aka 4.11.x
+>> > with KDE SC 4.6.x
+>>
+>> KMail 4.11.x ??!!   I don't understand that numbering.
+> Sorry i mean kmail 4.4.11. & not kmail 4.11
+>
+>> Not available with Mageia-2?
+> It is not because kdepimlibs is not compatible anymore with kdepim 4.4.x.
+>
+>
+> Regards,
+>
+> --
+> Balcaen John
+
+Well, we all know that kmail (and perhaps some other kdepim softwares)
+are tragedies for now.  I'm not using KMail anymore and use gmail
+instead.  Now my question is that, will the KDE update policy in
+backports be still the same as before?
+
+I remember that when discussing if Mageia 1 would have KDE 4.7 in
+backports, the answer was no because that kdepim was too unstable.
+And my Mageia 1 box was stuck in KDE 4.6 even KDE now is advanced to
+KDE 4.8.x.  Nevertheless, I'd still like to say, to be honest it would
+not be a problem for daily users who would like to upgrade their KDE
+to new versions, since they should all know kdepim's status.
+
+For Mageia 2, again I'd like to ask, if we will have KDE 4.9 in
+backports after it releases in August?
+
+(Yes, I know that I can upgrade my KDE using cauldron.  But no, I
+don't consider to upgrade my box with cauldron... it is far too
+unstable than any version of kdepim.)
+
+
+Thanks,
+Franklin
+