On Monday 07 November 2011 21:48:21 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
When is the release date of Qt 4.8 and will it have the KDE issues (font rendering and crashes) fixed? Not yet. And from what I understand from the bug report it seems a KDE bug.
Ioni has a point here though. Having packages in testing for too long tends to block other packages and rebuilds. So as a rule of thumb I would suggest that we don't put packages into testing that we wont release to extra as-is. This is esp. the case for beta software or release candidates. I agree that betas and RCs shouldn't go in [testing] for too long, but this is [testing] right? We can expect some annoying bug. Anyway, it wasn't my intention to freeze the [extra] updates.
So right, if the release of Qt 4.8 is unknown we might be better off to revert this changes or move them to kde-unstable which is depends on testing anyway. Unfortunately I cannot find a release schedule about Qt. I'm sending now a message to a couple of Qt devs. Just wait for my news.
-- Andrea