Fwd: KActivities repository split

Weng Xuetian wengxt at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 05:22:59 UTC 2016


I notice that there's one issue need before 5.6 release when I was
packaging kactivitymanagerd.

plasma-desktop and kactivitiymanagerd are both provides
kactivities5.po file. Please check
plasma-desktop/libs/kactivities-stats/src/Messages.sh and
kactivitymanagerd/src/Message.sh .

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at kde.org> wrote:
> Most of the distros already separated the library from the rest as far
> as the packages go (at least, that was my impression).
>
> So, if the packages were split into:
>
>  - library + qml imports
>  - kactivitymanagerd
>  - other things
>
> there should be no problems. plasma 5.6 would depend only on the
> library and kactivitymanagerd while other things would not be needed.
>
> For example (with fake package names):
>  plasma 5.5 - depends on kactivities/everything
>  plasma 5.6 - depends on kactivities/framework+qml,
> kactivities/kactivitymanagerd, obsoleting kactivities/everything-else
>
>> we then lose kio plugins
>
> Yes, this has not yet passed the review - it is scheduled to be moved
> to kio-extras. I've just pinged the reviewers again.
>
>> Or we should avoid packaging 5.6 until we have KF 5.20.0?
>
> This is one possibility - kf5.20 is going to be released before plasma
> 5.6. But I don't thing it is necessary.
>
> Cheerio,
> Ivan
>
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