Articles tagged with #planetdebian-en




On the road to Qt 5: Qt 4.8.4 and qtchooser uploaded to experimental

I have just uploaded Qt 4.8.4 to experimental. Apart from being the newest upstream release of the 4 series, it adds the basic support for coexisting with Qt 5. Because of this support it will need to go trough the NEW queue though, so we will need to …



My Debian freeze experience (so far)

This is the first freeze in which I'm involved with upload rights. And it turned out to be a quite interesting ride so far, so I thought it would be nice to write about it. As some of you may know, I'm a part of the [Qt/KDE team](http …



Is your KDE slooooow? Check your loopback interface

While digging Debian Qt-KDE's bugs, it has become more common to find people reporting that their KDE is very slow. Most of the time (if not every time) it turns out that the loopback interface is down. Sometimes the user did something wrong, sometimes some network manager, but the end …



QExtSerialPort in Debian experimental

After some rants about the status of different Qt-based serial port libs, I'm happy to announce that today QExtSerialPort was accepted in Debian experimental (this last link may give a 404 for some time, that's ok). A great effort was done upstream to put the source in a suitable …