Regression causing Freeze in KWin 4.9.1

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Wed Sep 5 21:23:25 UTC 2012


On Wednesday, September 05, 2012 16:07:30 Allen Winter wrote:
> Hot fixes should be sent to kde-packagers as a patch, or even better as a
> commit number.
> 
> Example:
> 
> "Dear packagers, we found a bad bug in kde-foo that causes the following
> terrible things to happen. Please apply commit abc123 to your kde-foo
> packages and distribute this new version to your users as soon as
> possible."
> 
> I don't think we want to respin tarballs for bugfixes.  To my recollection,
> we never have.

Right, tarballs are final. It would only introduce confusion ("which version 
of the 4.9.1 tarball do you have?"), so we better avoid it. 

We can always increase the version number and release 4.9.2 tomorrow, with 
just this one fix. Do we want to do that?
-- 
sebas

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