Automatic creation of version information on bugs.kde.org

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Feb 5 18:52:45 UTC 2014


El Dimecres, 5 de febrer de 2014, a les 13:10:30, Martin Gräßlin va escriure:
> On Wednesday 05 February 2014 12:59:12 you wrote:
> > > I noticed that somehow the versions in bugzilla get updated once we had
> > > an
> > > SC release. I don't know who does it, but I assume that someone on the
> > > list knows who does it :-)
> > > 
> > > So a small request: please exclude the kde-workspace products for the
> > > 4.12.x releases. Even better: change it to generate a 4.11.x version ;-)
> > 
> > Open systemsettings, go into menu, "About systemsetting". The dialog
> > window
> > displays "Version 4.12.0, under KDE 4.12.1" (seems like I havent finished
> > some update, me bad).
> 
> Ah well, that's a bug in systemsettings. We had the same one in KWin and
> fixed it in 4.11.6. The problem is that the version number for historic
> reasons is taken from kdelibs. But we have the proper version number
> available - and need to change that in master anyway.
> 
> > Please, dont. It'll generate even more confusion with users. In this case
> > IMHO the additional work burden is on your side. if you want to fiddle
> > around with the versioning system, you'll have to bear with the bug
> > reports
> > and the information you provided in your applications.
> 
> Yes there is confusion if versions information is incorrect. In case of KWin
> we fixed it and I'm happy to fix other applications.

+1, if other kde-workspace apps are using kdelibs version number, they need to 
get fixed.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers
> Martin



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