Draft message to packagers: Patch for Amarok 2.5.0 to fix critical usability bug with KDE 4.8

[Bart Cerneels]

I'm not subscribed to the packagers list either. You could have just send
it and it will certainly be let through in moderation by the list admin.

On Thursday, January 26, 2012, Matěj Laitl <matej at laitl.cz> wrote:
> Hi list,
> as Myriam repeatedly mentioned, we need to push a patch to packagers so
that
> Amarok can be used with KDE 4.8. Some known Amarok developer (Bart, Ralf,
> Mark?) should probably send (a variant of) following message to
kde-packager
> list. I've tested the 2.5.0 + attached patch personally with kdelibs
4.7.4 and
> 4.8.0. (on Qt 4.8.0, that shouldn't matter)
>
>                                                Matěj
> ---------------
> Hi Amarok packagers,
> there is a bug in Amarok 2.5.0 [1] when run on kdelibs >= 4.8.0 (no matter
> what kdelibs version Amarok was compiled against) which significantly
degrades
> user experience. If you ship kdelibs 4.8.0 or plan to do so, please
consider
> applying following patch to your Amarok 2.5.0 package which fixes the
problem.
> The patch was also successfully tested to work with kdelibs 4.7.4.
>
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290123
>
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