Nadeem Hasan writes:

> On Sunday 15 February 2004 03:05 pm, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>> CVS commit by domi:
>>
>> This patch splits libkdeprint_management.la up into a library and a
>> dlopen'able module.  For various reasons it is not a good idea to
>> have a library both linked to and dlopen'd.  Ask away if you want
>> details about this.

> Was it really necessary to backport this since it does not fix any
> bug?

It fixes a bug in packages for Debian and other FHS-conscious
distributions, namely that it is impossible to install different major
KDE versions alongside each other.  

I agree that this was on the verge of backportability, but I think it
was still on the good side of the border and noone objected to
backporting of the patch on kde-core-devel.

cheers
domi