Comment 10 for bug 19984

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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:29:55 +0200
From: Adeodato =?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?= <email address hidden>
To: Helen Faulkner <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, Alejandro Exojo <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#323747: kdelibs-data: upgrading from 4:3.3.2-6.1 to 4:3.4.2-1broke kicker &
 konqueror & more

* Helen Faulkner [Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:23:15 +1000]:

> Just to clarify, if anyone is still wondering. I upgraded 4:3.3.2-6.1 to
> 4:3.4.2-1 by literally running synaptic, updating the apt sources and telling
> synaptic to upgrade everything that could be upgraded (I have forgotten the
> direct apt-get command for that). I think this would be a fairly common thing
> to do and as Adeodato has pointed out, I was allowed to upgrade to the "wrong"
> version of kdelibs-data without realising it would cause problems.

  Right, hence the bug. We told [1] our users that "apt-get upgrade"
  would be safe during the C++ ABI transition.

    [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/08/msg00089.html

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