What to do with the Krita & Calligra?

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 30 May 2016 at 19:19, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:

> Am Montag, 30. Mai 2016, 19:03:39 CEST schrieb Jaroslaw Staniek:
> > On 30 May 2016 at 18:27, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>
> 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?
> >
> > I am usually sending announcements to ​kde-announce-apps at kde.org​.
>
> Right, but that one is for the actual release, here we are talking about
> prerelease announcement to packagers. So the packagers have the chance to
> do
> testing and packaging of the official software version in time for the
> actual
> release.
>

Yep, they would already have opportunity to see announcements about beta
releases of Krita, right?
​

> So that users, when they read about the announcement, are able to get the
> stuff from their package manager, if they are on a rolling release distri
> :)
> And not have to read the release news, look, not find it packaged, be
> disappointed and forget about it again.
> And so that the packagers can find issues in time, so we developers can fix
> things up before the release is announced.
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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