Fwd: KActivities repository split

Weng Xuetian wengxt at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 05:29:02 GMT 2016


And I'm afraid that messages/kde-workspace/kactivities5.po is already
messed up. Probably need to notify kde-i18n or do some manual fix.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Weng Xuetian <wengxt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I notice that there's one issue need before 5.6 release when I was
> packaging kactivitymanagerd.
>
> plasma-desktop and kactivitiymanagerd are both provides
> kactivities5.po file. Please check
> plasma-desktop/libs/kactivities-stats/src/Messages.sh and
> kactivitymanagerd/src/Message.sh .
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at kde.org> wrote:
>> Most of the distros already separated the library from the rest as far
>> as the packages go (at least, that was my impression).
>>
>> So, if the packages were split into:
>>
>>  - library + qml imports
>>  - kactivitymanagerd
>>  - other things
>>
>> there should be no problems. plasma 5.6 would depend only on the
>> library and kactivitymanagerd while other things would not be needed.
>>
>> For example (with fake package names):
>>  plasma 5.5 - depends on kactivities/everything
>>  plasma 5.6 - depends on kactivities/framework+qml,
>> kactivities/kactivitymanagerd, obsoleting kactivities/everything-else
>>
>>> we then lose kio plugins
>>
>> Yes, this has not yet passed the review - it is scheduled to be moved
>> to kio-extras. I've just pinged the reviewers again.
>>
>>> Or we should avoid packaging 5.6 until we have KF 5.20.0?
>>
>> This is one possibility - kf5.20 is going to be released before plasma
>> 5.6. But I don't thing it is necessary.
>>
>> Cheerio,
>> Ivan
>>
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