Mail to upstream about the revision suffix in the snapshot packages

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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Hello.

Starting with KDE-4.2.61, unstable KDE snapshots started to include in
the tarball name the svn revision number
(${modulename}-${version}.svn${revision}.tar.bz2). Thus, instead of
kdebase-runtime-4.2.63.tar.bz2, we now have
kdebase-runtime-4.2.63.svn925121.tar.bz2.
This change introduced an unpredictable factor to the tarball name and
makes it no longer possible to build unstable snapshots in source based
distributions without manually changing build scripts to update URL's
accordingly.
On Monday, 9 Feb, in the kde-packager mailing list one of our
developers proposed providing symlinks in
pub/kde/unstable/${version}/src/sources for backward compatibility:
${modulename}-${version}.tar.bz2 ->
${modulename}-${version}.svn${revision}.tar.bz2 (msgid =
<200902100022.08319.scarabeus at gentoo.org>). There has been no reply to
that email yet.
As we already have quite a bit of work with KDE and have limited man
power, our ability to provide unstable KDE snapshots in our official
testing repository is being affected and we might have no other option
than to stop supporting snapshots until they get closer to release or we
find an "automated way" to specify the source URI for the snapshots.
Can we find a solution to this?

For the Gentoo KDE team
Gentoo/KDE Lead

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Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE
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