From: Thomas B. <br...@ph...> - 2009-02-21 15:40:02
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On Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009, Andreas Wenning wrote: > Hi Kile developers! > > First of all, thanks for producing one of the best (personal opinion: the > best) IDE for latex. > Hi Andreas, thanks for the compliments :) > In Kubuntu[1] we are slowly trying to get rid of all the KDE3 versions of > packages and replacing them with KDE4 alternatives. One of these packages > are Kile. > > After a short test of the KDE4 version currently available in the svn > repository we have decided to take the plunge, and go with the KDE4 version > for our next release (jaunty 9.04), due to be released on April 23rd 2009. Okay, this sounds a bit challenging. But will hopefully work out well. What is the latest date you can incorporate changes? > What this means is, that we will incorporate an svn snapshot of your > package into the development release (should appear within some days); this > should hopefully give the package a lot of testing, and help in getting > some of the issues still present to the surface, and to help you make a > great 2.1 release. Definitly, the testing is currently increasing a lot, which of course also means that the workload is increasing too ;) > I will personally receive the bugs found in the development release into > our bug-tracking system[2], and spend some time reporting relevant ones to > the KDE bug tracker. Good. Getting info from downstream is always a big help. > > I have subscribed to the kile-devel list, and will follow the development > closely. If any serious bugs gets fixed in the svn I might be able to > update the snapshot at some point; so don't hesitate to contact me, if you > keep getting complaints from Kubuntu users about a breakage that you > already fixed > > :-) > > You can see the version (the date of the svn snapshot will be part of the > version), as soon as the package appears in Launcpad[3]. > > The package is as default build without debug-symbols; but they can be > quickly installed. If you receive a back-trace with missing symbols, have > the user install the package "kile-dbg" and reproduce the crash, and the > missing symbols will be there. > > Once again, thanks a lot for Kile! And looking forward to collaborating > with you for a great KDE4 appearance. > > And as a first contribution / patch; please see attached file. Thanks for the patch. It is already incorporated. I also added some stuff from the CMakeLists.txt diffs according to the ubuntu package diff. Does launchpad already have this nice patch tracking [1] like debian? bye, Thomas [1] http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/kile/1:2.0.3-1 |