plasma-desktop 6.3.1 respin request

Joshua Goins josh at redstrate.com
Wed Feb 19 15:01:44 GMT 2025


On Tuesday, February 18, 2025 7:15:34 PM Eastern Standard Time Justin Zobel 
wrote:
> On 19/2/25 10:26, Joshua Goins wrote:
> > Someone noticed a build failure on some systems (NixOS and Slackware it
> > seems) due to C++ funkiness. They fixed it, and I cherry-picked it to
> > 6.3. Can we get a respin or a 6.3.1.1? Thanks!
> 
> If it only affects two distros, I think having them carrying the patch
> downstream is more suitable than re-spinning (something in my opinion we
> should never do) or creating a new tarball, e.g. 6.3.1.1.

I thought about this, but the fact that it's not compilable is kinda bad for 
something like plasma-desktop (it also reflects badly on KDE if someone has to 
patch our newly released software to make it work.) As of writing, the extra 
release happened anyway.

> What is different about these two distros that only they were affected?
> Perhaps it is something we can add tests or CI jobs for.

This would be good IMO, I'm worried that something like this slipped past us. 
I'm still not certain what compilers trigger this, the commit message says 
GCC14. So maybe we need a more recent GCC and/or clang?

tangent: really wish this kind of stuff would stop happening in C++. why is it 
that some code can compile and link fine in one setup, and then completely 
break in another? 🙂 I *know* the reason, it's just frustrating.

Josh





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