Hi all,
First of all newbie to the list.
A request to all, please CC me if somebody answers as I have turned
off mail delivery for the group as I have more than enough mailing
lists subscriptions to last a lifetime.
Ok, now the thing is Debian sid has just started on the road to KDE SC
4.7 . While I'm not a KDE User I do use quite a few of the KDE tools
and more specifically games esp. Kshinshen and palapeli.
In most GNU/Linux distributions that I have played with there is a
concept called changelogs where one can read what changes, new
features,bug-fixes etc. were done to a program once a new version is
out. This I'm stating for self as well as any newbies who might be out
there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changelog
Like most of the distributions even Debian has this changelogs. Debian
is a bit more particular as they also do something called
Debianization hence we get two changelogs, one is the one where
changelog about a particular program is kept (changelog.gz) and one
where changes done for Debian packaging is kept.
An example of a package/program where both changelog.gz and
changelog.Debian.gz is kept :-
/usr/share/doc/leafpad$ ls
changelog.Debian.gz changelog.gz copyright README
Now these are excerpts from the changelog.Debian.gz (which tells the
latest update) :-
/usr/share/doc/leafpad$ zcat changelog.Debian.gz | less
leafpad (0.8.18.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/compat
- Update to 9
* debian/control
- (Build-Depends): update to debhelper 9, dpkg-dev 1.16.1.
* debian/patches
- (20): Fix code for gcc hardened format specifiers.
* debian/rules
- Use hardened CFLAGS (FTBFS; Closes: #646343).
http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/SecurityHardeningBuildFlags
-- Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@xxxxxxxxx> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:03:31 -0500
As can be seen this is the maintainer Jari Aalto and he is talking
about some changes he did so it works in/with Debian better.
There is another changelog which I'm more interested in :-
/usr/share/doc/leafpad$ zcat changelog.gz | less
2010-12-23
version 0.8.18.1:
* Fixed saving (Jan-Erik Rediger, Edward Sheldrake).
2010-12-18
version 0.8.18:
* Fixed action when file name contains colon
(John Lindgren, Mikko Viinamaki).
* Fixed memory leak on saving file (Dmitry Artamonow).
* Fixed caseless search bug (Dmitry Artamonow).
* Fixed memory leak on line numbering (Hongwei Xi).
* Fixed truncation on saving file (Alex, brian m. carlson).
* Added translations: eo, gl.
* Updated translations: fi, hu.
This changelog is showing the actual changes that were made from say
0.8.18 to 0.8.18.1
Now I know that KDE has taken the modularization route so its easier
both for users and developers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Software_Compilation
I had tried to see if the changelogs are there in Debian in quite a
few of the KDE packages that I have on the system but got nowhere with
them :-
For e.g.
/usr/share/doc/kdegames$ ls
changelog.Debian.gz copyright README
/usr/share/doc/palapeli$ ls
changelog.Debian.gz copyright
So either it means that no changes were done when transiting from KDE
4.4/4.6 to KDE 4.7 or what for these packages or maybe the Debian
maintainers messed it up somewhere .
Just to make it clear for myself I also downloaded a source file from
KDE 4.8 info page (as that is the latest release of the project) and
tried to see if there is a changelog somewhere but couldn't.
For instance I downloaded the package analitza (I don't really know
what the package does) but its the first one listed and it is pretty
small.
ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/kde/stable/4.8.0/src/analitza-4.8.0.tar.bz2
uncompressed and went to the directory to see if there was anything by
the name changelog or something but didn't find any.
~/analitza-4.8.0$ ls | grep change*
A simple listing shows me this :-
~/analitza-4.8.0$ ls
analitza analitza.kdev4 cmake config-kalgebra.h.cmake
COPYING.DOC icons Messages.sh
analitzagui calgebra CMakeLists.txt COPYING
COPYING.LIB Mainpage.dox TODO
Looking forward to understand .
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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