kdesupport Policy

[Matt Rogers]

On Aug 22, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Allen Winter wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> The recent build problems in our kdesupport package dependencies
> needs to be addressed.
>
> I think we need to treat kdesupport libs just like any other  
> external dependency.
>
> Something like the following guidelines:
>
> No KDE code (in trunk) changes should be necessary until:
> - a real release of the kdesupport package has been made AN
> - that release has been packaged by the "major" distros AND
> - an announcement about the needed upgrade is made in advance AND
> - people have had time (30 days?) to upgrade to the new packages
>
> For example:
>  libfoo v1.0 is released.
>  kde-packagers are notified to please provide packages for their  
> distros.
>  kde-devel and kde-code-devel are notified that within 30 days their
>  builds will fail unless they have libfoo v1.0 installed -- that the  
> distros
>  have been notified and we hope packages will start appearing soon.
>
> People wanting to develop against libfoo v1.0 will need to do so in  
> a work branch.
>
> I need to get out of the habit of building kdesupport all the time  
> -- we should
> be relying on distro packages where possible.
>
> Comments?

I was under the impression that was the policy already, so perhaps we  
just need to do a better job of educating people about the policy and  
enforcing it when necessary...
--
Matt