Regression causing Freeze in KWin 4.9.1

[Anke Boersma]

Maybe helpful, just some input from one packager.
To me, the patch is the way to go

Anke



On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2012, 23:23:25 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> > 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?
>
> I hope not. Many applications have a numbering scheme that follow the KDE
> SC
> version numbers in some way. So they would have to bump their version
> numbers.
> Which means we either need to create a new branch for them if they already
> have post 4.9.1-changes in their KDE/4.9 branch or include their new
> changes.
> Which would mean we should add another stabilization phase or something.
>
> So, my vote is clearly release a 4.9.1a of exactly that one tarball.
>
> Eike
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