KDE Applications Versioning

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Christoph Cullmann <cullmann at absint.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for frameworks, it is all very nice and automatic, the version in the CMakeLists.txt get auto-updated on each KF 5.x release.
>
> It seems to me, for the "applications" collection, something similar might make sense.
>
> E.g. I missed to ever update the Kate version since 5.0 and other applications like Dolphin and Konsole seem to have similar problems.
>
> Would it make sense to have some "we auto-define some version CMake var" to KDE Application release number?
> For e.g. bug reports that would make all things easier.
> Or do I miss some magic already in place (e.g. the opensuse packages seems to have patched release numbers, at least for Konsole).
>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>
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I'd welcome such feature. I always forget to update my applications' version.

Maybe it would be best to ask the release-team at kde.org?

Aleix