Plasma 5.1 beta tars

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Saturday, September 27, 2014 07:30:39 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2014 19:46:27 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Divendres, 26 de setembre de 2014, a les 19:33:47, Martin Gräßlin va
> > > On Friday 26 September 2014 19:26:20 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > I think there was a typo: KF5 5.3 will be released before the final
> > > Plasma
> > > 5.1, not 2.
> >
> > Still, at the moment, we have put out some tarballs that are uncompilable.
> >
> > What's the point?

> > P.S: Sure i know I can compile them using some git version somewhere, but
> > that's not how one is supposed to do releases.
> 
> ok, I see the problem. As it was me who introduced the hard dependency on
> new  5.3 API, let me say sorry for that. I was not aware that it will
> create problems. Given that the release schedule was prepared in a way that
> we can depend on KF5.3 I didn't expect that depending on 5.3 would create
> packaging problems. I could easily revert the commits, but it would only
> fix half of the problem as also code in plasma depends on plasma-framework
> - even if it doesn't use new API.
> 
> For the next release cycle we should be aware of that problem and ensure
> that  we do not depend on unreleased frameworks.

We talked about this during today's meeting. We want to improve the timing so 
that this doesn't happen, possibly put both, beta and final onto the same 
Frameworks dependency.
-- 
sebas

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