[arch-general] KDE 4.7 hits [testing]

[Marc Deop]

On Thursday 28 July 2011 01:26:01 Andrea Scarpino wrote:
> Hi arKers,
> KDE 4.7 has been released[1] and our packages are ready in [testing].
> 
> As you already know KDE is (slowly) moving to GIT. With this
> transition some KDE module has been splitted into subprojects, and the
> remaining modules should be splitted before KDE 4.8.
> The result of this is that some package (e.g. kdegraphics-libs) is now
> splitted in several packages and each new package conflicts with the
> old kdegraphics-libs, so you have to remove it when pacman asks for
> its removal during the update.
> 
> Here some info about the splitted modules:
> - KDE Workspace: wallpapers are now in a separate package named
> kde-wallpapers, this reduced the kdebase-workspace package download
> size by 70%.
> - KDE Graphics: kdegraphics-libs is now splitted in
> kdegraphics-ksaneplugin, kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer,
> kdegraphics-svgpart, kdegraphics-thumbnailers, libkdcraw, libkexiv2,
> libkipi, libksane. Our official packages which depends on
> kdegraphics-libs have been updated to depend on the new libraries; the
> upgrade should work without any issue, otherwise please report it to
> our bug tracker.
> - KDE Edu: kdeedu-libkdeedu and kdeedu-data have been dropped and
> libkdeedu will replace them.
> - KDE Bindings: every subproject has been splitted in two parts: one
> for the qt bindings and one for the KDE bindings. The old packages
> have been remove and the new one are: kdebindings-kimono,
> kdebindings-kross-java, kdebindings-kross-python,
> kdebindings-korundum, kdebindings-perlkde, kdebindings-perlqt,
> kdebindings-qtruby, kdebindings-qyoto, kdebindings-smokegen,
> kdebindings-smokekde, kdebindings-smokeqt.
> - KDE Accessibility: kdeaccessibility-colorschemes and
> kdeaccessibility-iconthemes are dropped and replaced.
> 
> Have a nice update!
> 
> [1] http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/
> 
> 

Hi Andrea,

I just wanted to thank you for the work you do with the KDE packages in Archlinux :)

And now that I'm at it...is there anyway I could help?

Thanks again for the great work!

Regards,

Marc Deop i Argemí