[Kde-extra-gear] Farewell, so long, the four is coming ...

[Achim Bohnet]

On Thursday, 19. April 2007, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> On Thursday 19 April 2007, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > > During this time, i planned a cleanup in applications as well, so i'll be
> > > moving all current trunk for branches/extragear/kde3 and will let on
> > > trunk only the apps effectively maintained, and new one's waiting to
> > > enter on kde 4 life.
> >
> > In case of K3b I think it would be ok to move trunk to kde3, but please let
> > me do that. After 1.1 I will start the KDE4 port and, thus, move back to
> > trunk. Sounds good?
> 
> Done deal, is up to you decide in yout app as usual :-)
> 
> > > - Should we commit ourselves to the ( not well ) implementated idea of
> > > STABLE tags ? I, and suspect Aseigo, want that as a "yes", since we still
> > > plan to launch apps packages. And how we will package this apps ? By app
> > > or by module ?
> >
> > I am already using the stable tag branch for K3b but not the tag. I don't
> > like the idea of an extragear package. K3b should only be released by me,
> > please.
> 
> So, let's explain one of the ideas
> The idea is not us pick the package, the idea is release a set of last stable 
> packages, so during the new KDE release, we will launch a "module" containing 
> all latest released tarbals made by developers. So, as example, if you 
> releases k3b 2.0 in september and KDE will be released in October, for 
> convenience, we will have a package extragear-multimedia containing the 2.0 
> release independently ( or a link for your official package ), doesn't matter 
> if you are already working on  2.1 or later. The package will be just for 
> easy target of packagers. 
> Of course, the discussion is here to improve or change the system, the only 
> sure thing about this is that i will release a extragear package per module, 
> how will be done is one of this mail targets to solve :-)

Hi Helio,

Not sure what you mean with package.  A tarball or?

At least Debian and Kubuntu will never use a extragear-whatever tarball
to create packages for their distributions.

Debian and Kubuntu update pkgs when a new release for an app comes out
(and pkg maintainers have free time ;)  Using a extragear-whatever
tarball to create pkgs would duplicate work and conflict with already
existing pkgs in the distro archives.

Achim
> 
> []'s
> 
> -- 
> Helio Chissini de Castro
> KDE Developer
> Brasil/South America Primary Contact
> 



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