What's "qt5-stable" on build.kde.org

[Milian Wolff]

On Tuesday 16 September 2014 21:50:57 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 September 2014 21:23:54 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> >> I wrote this a bit too quickly.
> >> The correct url is
> >> http://build.kde.org/view/External_Deps/job/qt5_master_qt5/
> >> 
> >> What the system means by "stable" in the output is that is the branch
> >> that it should theoretically be building against.
> >> This information is drawn from the build metadata available to it. It
> >> has no correspondence with the job name.
> >> 
> >> In the case of Qt 5, this information is maintained in the CI scripts own
> >> files.
> > 
> > thanks, that explains it. From the latest build log:
> > 
> > "Branch jenkins set up to track remote branch stable from origin."
> > 
> > and the stable branch seems to no longer being updated on upstream's side.
> > qtbase is set to 8fa9121 according to build's output.
> > 
> > This is older than the patch I got into Qt 5.
> > 
> > Maybe it would be better to track the 5.3 branch instead?
> 
> That is a development decision. Once taken, the necessary file to
> adjust is the same as for all other KDE projects:
> logical-module-structure

Yes, there is no "stable" anymore upstream. 5.3 is probably a good choice for 
now, until 5.4 is released.

Bye
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