kde4 vs plasma5 khelpcenter

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Mon Jul 13 08:37:41 UTC 2015


Kubuntu also changed some paths, we just added it to the search
location in kio, seems to work fine, much nicer than having two
khelpcenters around. 
 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/wily/kio/wily/view/head:/debian/patches/kubuntu_kdelibs4-docs-path.diff
 
Jonathan

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:20:42AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> In case other packagers find the pitfall fedora did...
> 
> Folks are probably aware that both kde-applications (in kde-runtime)
> and plasma-5.x include versions of khelpcenter.We, like some other
> distros, created a separate khelpcenter (sub)package from
> kde-runtime. The pitfall we hit was that kde-applications version
> (15.04.0) was higher than plasma (5.3.x).
> 
> And, unfortunately, kde4 khelpcenter doesn't work with kf5
> applications.For example, see:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349570
> 
> Fedora recently fixed that (by introducing an epoch to
> khelpcenter-5.x packaging), so the plasma5 version has precedence.
> 
> -- Rex
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