> Sure.  What was changed?  I thought that branch was dead.

I do not know, but the latest change was by Thomas McGuire.

>
> Also, the core system compiles just fine under Lucid.  Some of the extra
> applications (koffice, adept, etc.) are the problem.

I wonder why they in OpenSUSE have no such problems neither with core system,
nor with other applications :-/