kdesupport Policy

[Tom Albers]

Op zaterdag 23 augustus 2008 01:18 schreef u:
> 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?

Sure. That also means that kdesupport can be used as development tree for those applications. In other words, if you use kdesupport instead of distro packages, kdelibs might fail to build.

Just wanting to make sure we agree.

Toma