What to do with the Krita & Calligra?

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2016-05-30 19:19 keltezéssel, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau írta:
> 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.
> 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

It's possible to solve this problem at the Calligra (or distro 
maintaners) side. They should put a new package dependency for the Krita 
package into the Calligra package, instead of directly packing Krita. I 
think this can work for the rolling upgrades.

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