What to do with the Krita & Calligra?

[Antonio Rojas]

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

> Am Montag, 30. Mai 2016, 17:20:58 CEST schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
>> On Mon, 30 May 2016, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>> > So this is about being able to install Krita3 next to e.g. Calligra
>> > Words2.9 or Karbon2.9, right?
>> > So where do you expect problems here, where would/could things
>> > installed clash, assuming at least the krita app program has been put
>> > into a separate
>> > package?
>> 
>> Yes -- I haven't tested it, but I expect problems there. Because, well
>> Murphy.
> 
> The ones to test it would/should be the distri packagers IMHO :)
> 
> Problem here is, we do not have much feedback by them, as they, unless
> following closely Krita development, might not know about the upcoming
> Krita 3 release and thus also have not yet started packaging or giving
> things some more testing.
> At least I only saw the email by Cyrille to	kde-distro-
packagers at kde.org
> for Krita 3.0 Beta in April, but nothing else. Is there another list?
> 
> Just emailed to release-team & kde-distro-packagers mailinglists to get an
> idea where self-release-managed apps like Krita should do mass
> announcement of upcoming releases to packagers, so we (Krita, Calligra,
> Kexi & Co) do know where to ping them once their is something new to
> distribute.
> 
> Let's wait for the packagers' feedback. And say "No" to premature package
> optimizations ;)
> 

FWIW, we've been packaging the Krita betas in the Arch pre-releases repo 
with no coinstallation issues whatsoever with the rest of Calligra.