RFC: remove qt-copy

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Thu May 28 22:13:09 BST 2009


On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 25 May 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > The current way of doing things for me (in debian) is to take the
> > released qt tarballs and read over the patches dir of qt-copy and
> > delicately pick the ones I think is relevant and understandable (these
> > factors is also influenced by commiter and names in the patch)
>
> erf ... are we sure that having packagers decide which patches are best is
> a better mechanism than having this done upstream in KDE? that sounds like
> a great way to have various functionally incompatible versions of Qt out
> there with the reasons for those differences depending on the understanding
> and motivation of the packager.
>
> as a software developer, that runs chills (and not the good sort) down my
> spine.

I fully agree, but that's what is simply the case today for many packages and 
for many distros, they ship patched packages.
(except Slackware :-) )

Alex




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