kdesupport Policy

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte 23 Agost 2008, Allen Winter va escriure:
> 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.

Or using nice #ifdefs like we do in okular with poppler.

Albert

>
> I need to get out of the habit of building kdesupport all the time -- we
> should be relying on distro packages where possible.
>
> Comments?
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