plasma-wayland-protocols, kwayland, kwayland-server, and kwin have to recompiled

[Vlad Zahorodnii]

On 8/26/21 9:58 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 9:58 PM Vlad Zahorodnii <vlad.zahorodnii at kde.org 
> <mailto:vlad.zahorodnii at kde.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
> 
> Hi Vlad,
> 
> 
>     I've just merged a patch that tweaks some protocol additions in the
>     plasma window management protocol that were made this month and haven't
>     been released yet.
> 
>     Even though that change won't affect users running stable version of
>     plasma, it may cause issues on developer machines.
> 
>     If you experience startup issues with plasma on wayland, in particular
>     plasma not starting at all, please recompile the following projects:
> 
>     * plasma-wayland-protocols
>     * kwayland
>     * kwayland-server
>     * kwin
>     * plasma-workspace
> 
> 
> I'm afraid the CI system may disagree with you regarding the impact on 
> stable branches, please see 
> https://build.kde.org/view/Failing/job/Plasma/job/kwayland/ 
> <https://build.kde.org/view/Failing/job/Plasma/job/kwayland/>
> These breakages look to be related to plasma-wayland-protocols.

It looks like stable-kf5-qt5 SUSEQt5.15 and stable-kf5-qt5 FreeBSDQt5.15 
need a dependency build.

Just to clarify, plasma-wayland-protocols with relevant protocol changes 
hasn't been released yet. It's not possible to break API or ABI 
compatibility with KWayland 5.85 or earlier.

Cheers,
Vlad

> I also note that these changes caused substantial disruption to the CI 
> system requiring multiple Dependency Builds to be run to correct the 
> issue and restore normal service.
> 
> As plasma-wayland-protocols is not part of either Frameworks or Plasma, 
> please ensure necessary changes to it are landed well in advance of 
> starting to use them - rather than all at the same time.
> 
> 
>     Sorry for the inconvenience,
>     Vlad
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben