KDiff3 MacOS builds failing

[Julius Künzel]

Here is a patch to fix it. The details are explained overthere https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-notary-service/-/merge_requests/91

Julius Künzel
KDE Developer
Matrix: @jlskuz:kde.org
KDE GitLab: https://invent.kde.org/jlskuz

26.02.2026 02:01:57 Julius Künzel <julius.kuenzel at kde.org>:

> Something must have changed in our setup recently. Kdenlive is facing the same error and we didn't change anything on our side or in our blueprint.
> Julius Künzel
> KDE Developer
> Matrix: @jlskuz:kde.org
> KDE GitLab: https://invent.kde.org/jlskuz
> 
> 25.02.2026 18:48:23 Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org>:
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 6:43 AM Michael Reeves <reeves.87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks. As near as I can tell craft itself autogenerats the .app path by default. Which means it some thinks the directory the .app is in rather than the al.app[http://al.app] itself is what needs copied to the image. There is a manual override I currently don't use.
>> 
>> I'd suggest asking in the Craft channels about this.
>>  
>>> 
>>> Feb 25, 2026 3:09:03 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org>:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 8:49 AM Michael Reeves <reeves.87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> same error as before.
>>>> 
>>>> Correct, the signer is complaining that:
>>>> 
>>>> 2026-02-24 10:23:14,784 ERROR macappsigner Error: Processing task '20260224T102307-sdk-kdiff3_4054367' failed with Error('No *.app with a *.plist was found to verify the application id of the DMG.'). Giving up.
>>>> 2026-02-24 10:23:14,784 DEBUG macappsigner Error details: sftpnotary.exceptions.Error: No *.app with a *.plist was found to verify the application id of the DMG.
>>>> 
>>>> This means that the plist file generated by CMake does not match the identifier specified in the Notary configuration, so signing services are refused.
>>>> 
>>>> I've pulled the DMG file from the trash of the Notary and extracted it and found the following contents:
>>>> 
>>>>         <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
>>>>         <string>org.kde.KDiff3</string>
>>>> 
>>>> That is fine, so I next checked to see if the plist file was even being found.
>>>> 
>>>> To do this I ended up downloading the actual *.dmg file which revealed that the real issue is not the app bundle - it is the DMG.  To ensure random junk is not extracted, only paths matching the pattern *.app/*/*.plist are extracted by the signer. This is broken by KDiff3 though which has the following path: kdiff3-master-2147-macos-clang-arm64/kdiff3.app/Contents/Info.plist[http://kdiff3.app/Contents/Info.plist]
>>>> 
>>>> The insertion of the "kdiff3-master-2147-macos-clang-arm64" folder is the issue here.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ben
>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Feb 24, 2026 12:21:26 PM Michael Reeves <reeves.87 at gmail.com>:
>>>>> 
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