Fwd: kdeedu-data

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2014-10-23 11:48 GMT-03:00 Eric Hameleers <alien at slackware.com>:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>
>> Hey packagers,
>>
>> A quick heads up about kdeedu-data strangeness.
>>
>> The upcoming KDE Applications 14.12 release will have some
>> applications based on kdelibs4 and others based on kf5. Because some
>> applications that use libkdeedu/libkeduvocdocument are going to be
>> still based on kdelibs4 while others have already been ported to qt5
>> and kf5 there will be both libkdeedu and libkeduvocdocument tarballs
>> released. Because both used to contain a handful of kvtml files, we
>> moved them out into kdeedu-data which both libkdeedu and
>> libkeduvocdocument should depend on (or at least khangman(kdelibs4)
>> and kanagram(libkeduvocdocument) should depend on in order to run.
>>
>> Now kdeedu-data uses ecm instructions to build like other kf5 based
>> applications. Is that going to be a problem to make both khangman and
>> kanagram run time depend on these packages, while kdeedu-data at build
>> time requires ecm to build?
>>
>> I'm open to other solutions, but this is the best we could come up
>> with at this time.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Jeremy
>
>
> Please explain to me why applications in the 4.14.12 release should depend
> on kf5? The kf5 dependencies must be left out of the tarball for the KDE SC
> 4.14 releases.
>
> And if that is impossible for you, then consider this alternative.
>
> Anything depending on kf5 or ecm or qt5 will have to be optional when
> compiling the Applications 4.14.12 tarball. Additionally, no build-time
> dependency should be enforced on anything that relates to kf5.

It's 14.12, not 4.14.12. It's a new *major* version, with half the
apps depending on kf5.

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Nicolás