KDE Applications 16.04.0 packages available for packagers

[Eric Hameleers]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> El dijous, 14 d?abril de 2016, a les 13:42:18 CEST, Eric Hameleers va
> escriure:
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>> At the usual location.
>>>
>>> Haven't had time to compile yet, will try to get to it on monday since
>>> this
>>> weekend i'm away at Akademy-es.
>>>
>>> REVISIONS_AND_HASHES file at https://paste.kde.org/pfq4epsxp
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>  Albert
>>
>> Albert, there is a great many new tarballs:
>
> We do Beta and RC for a reason, seems you're realizing a bit too late ;)

Well... Keeping a KDE package repository uptodate with the ever 
evolving Frameworks, Plasma and Application tarballs is already taking 
enough time just when tracking stable releases. We are a small team, 
KDE packaging is just one of the things I do. Stuff like LibreOffice, 
Chromium, multilib compilers and Slackware Live come on top. Know what 
- I pass on Beta and RC versions.

>> libksieve
>> messagelib
>> libgravatar
>> libkdepim
>> kdgantt2
>> incidenceeditor
>> eventviews
>> grantleetheme
>> kdepim-apps-libs
>> mailimporter
>> minuet
>> libkleo
>> kdepim-addons
>> pimcommon
>> mailcommon
>> kleopatra
>> calendarsupport
>
> There are more new tarballs, minuet, ktp-call-ui, kde-l10n-ast at least I also
> pointed a list to the new tarballs in old emails about KDE Applications 16.04,
> i'll leave as an exercise for you to search for it.

Helpful, as always. But I can read diffs of directory listings thank 
you. It takes me exactly one command to get a listing of tarballs that 
are not yet being used in my build framework, so this is a irrelevant 
comment... I am interested in *build order* .

>> I assume these belong to KDEPIM. Where is their build order documented
>> - also in relation to the other pre-existing tarballs?
>
> In their CMakeLists.txt, in the kde-build-metadata repo and in the totally
> random order i use to build packages that seemed to work last time (don't take
> this as anything official) http://paste.ubuntu.com/15838970/

Please understand this.
As a distro packager, I would welcome a simple piece of documentation 
written by the developer that is *not* a CMakeLists.txt file. If you 
develop software and cut that into 20 tarballs, it does not cost you 
blood to write up what a packager needs to do with them.

If every distro needs to figure out a build order, you introduce 
randomness in the resulting packages and therefore you make it 
a lot more difficult to troubleshoot the resulting bugs when 
end users report them back to you.

Now that paste is more like something of a serious answer to a serious 
question. You do have some interesting differences in build order, 
compared to me. I will figure something out locally, as I do want my 
target audience to experience the new Plasma/Applications sooner 
rather than later.

> Cheers,
>  Albert

Cheers, Eric

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