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Re: [trinity-devel] konqueror segv in 3.5.13-sru

From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:35:17 -0500
On 08/07/2012 07:28 PM, Slávek Banko wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 of August 2012 23:05:49 Francois Andriot wrote:
>> Mmmm never mind, I've just found that it crashes with a message in
>> terminal: "undefined symbol XXXX in some kdiff3 library ..." (I did not
>> notice that kdiff3 had installed a konqueror plugin ...)
>> But I already saw that upgrading tdelibs from 3.5.13 to 3.5.13-sru
>> caused unresolved symbol in kpowersave, and even some in tdebase. I
>> think this is due to some "q"=>"tq" renaming or vice-versa.
>>
>> This leads me to the conclusion that, for packagers, the 3.5.13 =>
>> 3.5.13-sru upgrade won't be a "small update".
>> I think that all packages, including applications, should be rebuilt to
>> avoid such issues. TDE 3.5.13.1 looks like a major upgrade after all
>> (from an end-user point of view, who will need to upgrade every TDE
>> components).
>>
>> Francois
>>
> 
> If I know the number of changes that are dependent on some other is not many. 
> One is already mentioned tqaddAction/addAction => needed to update kdeaddons 
> and kdiff3. The second is the fix in the shutdown dialog => needed to update 
> kpowersave. The third is change in kdesu / kdesudo => needed to update 
> kdesudo.
> 
> However, it is true that, as number of fixes => patches have increased, so I 
> finally applied some patches to almost all packages.
> 
> Slavek
> 

How long ago did this problem show up? I have 3.5.13-sru konqueror with kdiff3
integration and it is working fine. No lockups, kdiff3 working, etc.. These
packages are from July 29. Here is a screenshot:

http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/3513-kdiff3.jpg

Do I need to try a rebuild and test?

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.