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

Bart Cerneels bart.cerneels at kde.org
Thu Jan 26 19:22:48 UTC 2012


I've send the message.

2012/1/26 Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org>:
> 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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