Packaging scripts for frameworks

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon Dec 30 12:23:13 UTC 2013


El Dilluns, 30 de desembre de 2013, a les 11:26:37, David Faure va escriure:
> On Sunday 29 December 2013 21:09:51 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > I think you should create a kf5.0 branch in the repo, that way you can
> > kill
> > the pack_l10n.sh and put the correct branches in the modules.git file,
> > etc.
> 
> Well there's no l10n in TP1, but I assume there will be in the final KF 5.0
> release, some frameworks have translatable strings (e.g. kio).
> 
> I can branch it if you prefer, I just thought, since this is the "master" in
> the future (it's already the master branch of all frameworks), maybe we can
> avoid some merging fun by doing such changes (like the diff I pasted here)
> in master.
> 
> It's different for the list of modules indeed. I was thinking about not
> committing that, but indeed it's easier for someone else to take over if I
> commit the stuff. Either in a separate file (that has to be copied over
> modules.git), or in a separate branch indeed. As you prefer.

Separate branch is much better, if you don't commit your stuff Kevin can't go 
in and do the next release without having to do do the same changes you made , 
maybe forget one or two of the modules that need to get released, etc.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> > Yep. Also we usually do the tarballing, give them to packagers and then
> > only tag on release (which is a few days later) in case we need to redo
> > the tarballs, so pack and tag should be different.
> 
> Agreed.



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