pkg kde talk - Sep 2007 - Minor packaging bugs in the KDE4 packages

Hi everybody!

I found some minor easy to fix bugs in the KDE 4 packages. The first one
has already been fixed by Fathi Boudra :-)
The two remaining bugs are related to duplicate files.
1) kdebase-data and kdeprint both contain
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/abentry.png
kdebase/debian/kdeprint.install lists this file explicitly so I guess
this is due to a mistake in kdebase/debian/kdebase-data.install. This
file doesn''t list only the files which should be included in
kdebase-data, but also complete directories (e.g.
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/). That''s why abentry.png is copied by
accident. Attached you find a patch which removes (hopefully all) of these
critical directory entries.

2) kdebase-data and ksysguard both contain 
usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/view-process-system.png
usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/view-process-all.png
usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/view-process-all-tree.png
usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/view-process-own.png
usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/view-process-system.png
usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/view-process-users.png
The interesting thing is, that upstream''s
kdebase-workspace-3.93.0.tar.bz2 doesn''t contain most of the pngs, but
kdebase-workspace_3.93.0.orig.tar.gz from experimental does contain
them.
Fix: Don''t install the files in
kdebase-workspace/debian/ksysguard.install
Find the trivial patch attached.

So much about packaging for the moment.

Another thing: Did anyone manage to run a complete KDE4 session with the
packages from experimental? I have kdebase and kdebase-workspace
installed and am not very successful. 
What do I do? I start KDM and login. From there I start "startkde" 
(because kstartupconfig fails I copied
.kde/share/config/startupconfig from my existing KDE3 config).
After around 60 seconds plasma seems to start and I can see two broken
plasmoids at the bottom which tell me something about brokem mime-types.
That''s it.
Did anyone get any further? Running konqueror or dolphin works BTW.

Regards,
Armin
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On Mon, 10 Sep 07 21:06, Armin Berres wrote:
> After around 60 seconds plasma seems to start and I can see two broken
> plasmoids at the bottom which tell me something about brokem mime-types.
I think I found the problem of the missing mime types: kdelibs5 should
have a dependency on shared-mime-info. The explanation can be found here
[0].
When shared-mime-info is installed the plasmoids are still broken, but the
warning is vanished.

Greetings,
Armin

[0] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=117439505315489