Planned BIC change to polkit-qt-1

[Dario Freddi]

On Wednesday 19 May 2010 16:28:09 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Quarta-feira 19 Maio 2010, às 15:23:56, Tom Albers escreveu:
> > >>> 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.
> 
> In other words, your proposal is for SC 4.6, released early next year.
> 
> However, a compromise might be to support both APIs in the 4.5 timeframe,
> making polkit-qt-1 1.0 an optional dependency.

You're right - I'll probably go for that route (CC'ing packager again), thanks 
for the suggestion.

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Dario Freddi
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