<font face="georgia,serif">Maybe helpful, just some input from one packager.</font><div><font face="georgia,serif">To me, the patch is the way to go<br clear="all"></font><font face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="font-size:x-small"><div>
<font face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></font></div>Anke </span></font><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eike@sf-mail.de" target="_blank">eike@sf-mail.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2012, 23:23:25 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:<br>
> On Wednesday, September 05, 2012 16:07:30 Allen Winter wrote:<br>
> > Hot fixes should be sent to kde-packagers as a patch, or even better as a<br>
> > commit number.<br>
> ><br>
> > Example:<br>
> ><br>
> > "Dear packagers, we found a bad bug in kde-foo that causes the following<br>
> > terrible things to happen. Please apply commit abc123 to your kde-foo<br>
> > packages and distribute this new version to your users as soon as<br>
> > possible."<br>
> ><br>
> > I don't think we want to respin tarballs for bugfixes. To my<br>
> > recollection,<br>
> > we never have.<br>
><br>
> Right, tarballs are final. It would only introduce confusion ("which version<br>
> of the 4.9.1 tarball do you have?"), so we better avoid it.<br>
><br>
> We can always increase the version number and release 4.9.2 tomorrow, with<br>
> just this one fix. Do we want to do that?<br>
<br>
I hope not. Many applications have a numbering scheme that follow the KDE SC<br>
version numbers in some way. So they would have to bump their version numbers.<br>
Which means we either need to create a new branch for them if they already<br>
have post 4.9.1-changes in their KDE/4.9 branch or include their new changes.<br>
Which would mean we should add another stabilization phase or something.<br>
<br>
So, my vote is clearly release a 4.9.1a of exactly that one tarball.<br>
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