What to do with the Krita & Calligra?

Jaroslaw Staniek staniek at kde.org
Mon May 30 16:04:47 BST 2016


Hi Boud,
Is the situation different in this regard than it was in KOffice 1 ->
Calligra 2 time?
Co-installation was not there and is not here in case of Calligra 2/3 apps.
Maybe package(s) of Krita 3 can be marked as obsoleting calligra-krita (2),
whatever the package name is in given distro.

Perhaps we can afford to have proper update for README.PACKAGERS.

Somewhat apparent change is lack of krita -> calligralibs dependency but
it's kind of transparent for users.


On 30 May 2016 at 16:39,
​​
Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, 30. Mai 2016, 16:14:32 CEST schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Tomorrow we'll release Krita 3.0.
>
> So awesome to have reached that point :)
>
> > At that point, the stable version
> > of Krita is no longer part of Calligra. On the other hand, Krita is
> > still part of the last stable release of Calligra, which makes it
> > hard for distributions to package both and make them coinstallable.
>
> Does it? Did anyone report problems?
>
> > When we split up Krita and Calligra I had expected both projects to
> > release more or less at the same moment, especially because the port
> > seemed to have posed much fewer problems for Calligra than for Krita.
> >
> > The question is: what do we do now? I guess there are three options:
> >
> > * Also release Calligra 3.0 Really Soon Now
>
> Sadly not possible, given the lack of dev resources at the moment.
>
> > * Make a Calligra 2.9 release without Krita
>
> Would that be really needed? Unless some distri packages all of Calligra
> into
> one package (which would be aweful and IMHO not supported by us), packagers
> should be able to create packages of new Krita next to packages from the
> old
> calligra, no?
>
> > * Accept the problem and do nothing
>
> Packagers could be told to use the cmake flag "-DBUILD_krita=off" with the
> existing calligra 2.9 tarball, that should in theory work to skip krita.
> But
> well, I am not sure what the problem is.
>
> > There is a simular problem with the calligra.org website: when will
> > we remove Krita from the website? When there's a new Calligta
> > release, now that there's a new Krita release, or...
>
> IMHO as soon as Krita 3 is out. The old landing page on calligra.org/krita
> would tell about Krita now grown up to be a project of its own.
>
>
@Cyrille: Would you be able to update the site with at putting least proper
links to krita.org? Or hand over to someone else.

A short list:
-
​I have no access here: ​
update the menu by removing Krita
​ (2 places)
-Editing possible, I can try: remove the
https://www.calligra.org/tour/calligra-suite/graphics-applications/​ and
unlink it from https://www.calligra.org/tour/calligra-suite/
-Editing possible, Boud: would you try? calligra.org/krita page stays (as
it's target from elsewhere in the internet) but needs update - mentioning
the change
-calligra.org artwork - I am volunteering to cut off one app :)
-places such as wikipedia would need updates, please consider changed for
your language :)
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