Unannounced new dependency in plasma-desktop

[Rik Mills]

On 08/08/2020 12:22, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> On Friday, 7 August 2020 22:55:20 BST Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> Hi Plasma Developers,
>>
>> It appears that in the past 24 hours you have introduced new
>> dependencies in the plasma-desktop repository without announcing them
>> 2 weeks in advance beforehand.
>>
>> This can be seen in the CI system failures at
>> https://build.kde.org/view/Failing/job/Plasma/job/plasma-desktop/
>>
>> Could we please get an explanation as to why this was not requested in
>> advance as is supposed to happen?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
> 
>   This one is on me, i guess? The reason for this is that this new dependency 
> was on a framework rather than an external dependency, and i was led to 
> believe that adding such a dependency to the repo metadata would be 
> sufficient.
> 

kaccounts (build dep) is part of the release service (formally KDE
Applications), not a framework.

libaccounts-qt (build dep) and signon-plugin-oauth2 (runtime) are not
frameworks, or a KDE project.

There is also no information in cmake as to minimum required versions of
these.