Proposal: move KWalletManager inside KWallet framework

Valentin Rusu kde at rusu.info
Tue May 26 22:18:01 UTC 2015


* Valentin Rusu <kde at rusu.info> [2015-05-26 23:56:05 +0200]:

> * Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> [2015-05-26 23:52:18 +0200]:
> 
> > El Dimarts, 26 de maig de 2015, a les 23:31:38, Valentin Rusu va escriure:
> > > * Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> [2015-05-26 21:42:25 +0200]:
> > > > El Dimarts, 26 de maig de 2015, a les 08:52:13, Valentin Rusu va escriure:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Since the release 15.04 I see more and more users puzzled about their
> > > > > KDE Wallet set-up. For example, see this [1]. They have existing KDE4
> > > > > wallets which get migrated by the KF5::KWallet::kwalletd5 migration
> > > > > agent, but have no means to look into/configure their migrated wallet,
> > > > > as KWalletManager5 was not released.
> > > > > 
> > > > > KWalletManager is now currently located in kdeutils and one needs to
> > > > > build the *frameworks* branch to get KWalletManager5 that manages
> > > > > kwalletd5. Packagers (e.g. Luca) tell me that's no possible to release
> > > > > KWalletManager5 from there.
> > > > > 
> > > > > So, I'd like to resubmit my old proposal: would that be possible to
> > > > > include KWalletManager in KF5::KWallet, in the runtime part, next to
> > > > > kwalletd. Or, if that's not possible, how should we handle this
> > > > > KWalletManager problem?
> > > > 
> > > > What about doing the obvious thing and releasing kwalletmanager5?
> > > 
> > > That would be awesome, but Luca said it's not easy to release it from a
> > > branch (the frameworks branch) hence my demand.
> > 
> > Just merge it to master and get it released with KDE Applications 15.08 ?
> 
> If I merge to master, I'll jeopardize the 14.xx version. If we're to
> maintain bothe 14.xx and 15.xx lines, then we need these two branches.

OK, thinking about it twice (also helped by our discussion), I'll merge
the frameworks branch to the master branch. This branch will become KF5
compatible.


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