Can we get tags and tarballs for the KDE Qt patch collection

[Ahmad Samir]

On 07/06/2021 22:52, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dilluns, 7 de juny de 2021, a les 20:46:25 (CEST), Nate Graham va escriure:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> The Fedora packagers were mentioning to me today that it would be a lot
>> easier for them to ship Qt with our patch collection if we made tags and
>> tarballs. Is this something we could look into doing?
> 
> We explicitly do not want to make releases
>    https://community.kde.org/Qt5PatchCollection#Will_there_be_releases.3F
> 
> Making a release means having to use of a version number, and any version number we use will be wrong.
> 
> Don't think this as a product, think of it as a central place where patches are collected.
> 
> If they want a tarball because using git is a problem, they can always use https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/archive/kde/5.15/qtbase-kde-5.15.tar.bz2 ?
> 
> Cheers,
>    Albert


Alternatively they could treat it like backported kernel patches? 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/blob/rawhide/f/Patchlist.changelog I don't know the 
details but it's doable is what I am saying.

The thing is, IIUC the KDE Qt patch curators don't want to create a release, just a set of 
"important" patches on top of the last open-source Qt release, i.e. deal with it like any other 
project whose upstream hasn't made any new releases in a long time, but there are new commits in 
git; I am sure most distro packagers have seen one or two cases as such.

My 2p.

Have a good day.

-- 
Ahmad Samir