Ok i’ve started the work to get a Snowglobe 2.0 built, but i’ve hit issues on Debian right away. My Debian target was stable, this has qt 4.4, we now need qt 4.6. There is no way on earth I am doing a complete qt back port for stable from testing.

So the time has come to fix the Debian repository once and for all and to use sensible names for all the target distributions. We started off calling the releases “unstable” as that is what you usually do for a new Debian package, you target and upload to unstable then it propagates over time to testing then stable. We are not there yet and we may never actually get “there” but we need a sane and rational repository structure.

The plan is thus, I’m going to take down apt.byteme.org.uk and rebuild. It will have releases for Lenny and Squeeze. So the existing Snowglobe things will be copied right as they are into the Lenny section. The new and updated qtwebkit and Snowglobe 2.0 will go in to the squeeze target, with luck squeeze is heading towards becoming stable. But its clear lenny is getting old in the tooth for the latest developments and we need to target squeeze now.

As part of the fix, a new Snowglobe 1.4 will also be uploaded, again for squeeze only as its using the new qtwebkit as well for media textures and all future releases will be squeeze targeted as well.