Planned BIC change to polkit-qt-1

[Dario Freddi]

On Wednesday 19 May 2010 15:23:56 Tom Albers wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2010 15:08:32 +0200, Dario Freddi <drf54321 at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > On 19/05/2010 14:58, Tom Albers wrote:
> >> On Wed, 19 May 2010 14:33:14 +0200, Dario Freddi <drf54321 at gmail.com>
> >> 
> >> wrote:
> >>> Hello everyone,
> >>> 
> >>> I am planning to commit a BIC change to polkit-qt-1 in kdesupport,
> >>> increasing polkit-qt-1's version to 1.0.0 and SO version to 1. This
> >>> change is due to the fact that memory management was, well, pretty
> 
> bad.
> 
> >>> Now the core library is implemented for the most part through
> >>> implicitly/explicitely shared data, which solved quite some problems
> 
> and
> 
> >>> fixed a pair of bugs.
> >>> 
> >>> Needless to say that users using KDE 4.4 should NOT upgrade to this
> 
> new
> 
> >>> version, but still use the old 0.95.x branch in kdesupport-for-4.4.
> >>> 
> >>> I will commit (after some further changes/discussion) these changes on
> >>> 
> >>> monday to:
> >>>  - kdesupport/polkit-qt-1
> >>>  - extragear/base/polkit-kde-1 - for the agent and the (still WIP) kcm
> >>>  - KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/auth - for the KAuth backend
> >>> 
> >>> Again, needless to say that if your application is using KAuth you are
> >>> not affected by any of these changes, just be sure to update all three
> >>> components at the same time.
> >>> 
> >>> Any objections before I do this?
> >> 
> >> Yes. We are in dependency freeze. This violates that.
> > 
> > Is this applicable also after Beta 1 has been released? If that is true
> > sorry for that, I clearly remembered wrong.
> > 
> > In this case I'd like ask for an exception for Beta 2, since this change
> > is not fundamental, but quite important (the only freeze-affected part
> > would be kdelibs of course).
> 
> All freezes lasts until the final release, unless specified otherwise.

Ok, my bad. I'll investigate further on the issue, and if I can't manage to 
find a different solution, I'll ask for an exemption in the next few days.

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Dario Freddi
KDE Developer
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