2 kirigami fixes for a point release

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Feb 12 18:31:04 GMT 2020


El dimecres, 12 de febrer de 2020, a les 15:37:09 CET, Nate Graham va escriure:
> Personally I think it would be nice to have 
> 86f988434cd657e77cc9429e78f7290ce6b5713d since otherwise LTS Plasma 
> users will be hitting it for the next few years.
> 
> ---
> 
> On another note, I have to admit I'm starting to doubt how well our LTS 
> Plasma product works without a corresponding LTS frameworks release to 
> support it. We can fix bugs in software that uses the Plasma release 
> schedule till the cows come home, but if the bug is in Frameworks, users 
> are stuck with it forever since LTS distros don't typically ship new 
> Frameworks releases.
> 
> Yes yes, they should, and all that--but they don't.
> 
> It seems like we either need to:
> - Work on convincing these distros to ship Frameworks versions in a 
> rolling manner to their LTS users
> - Provide an LTS Frameworks product that can receive bugfixes and get 
> point releases, to support the Plasma LTS product
> - Stop misleadingly offering a Plasma LTS product, since everything in 
> it that comes from Frameworks isn't actually LTS

This should not matter, Plasma LTS is built on *lots* of other libraries that are not LTS either.

If it matters is because the quality of KF5 releases are not good, that's what should be fixed IMHO.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Nate
> 
> 
> 
> On 2020-02-12 05:39, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:56 PM David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On mercredi 12 février 2020 12:48:48 CET you wrote:
> >>> Hi David,
> >>> me again, sorry :/
> >>> there seem to have been 2 regressions in kirigami 5.67 which are
> >>> affecting the lts release of plasma in a quite user visible way
> >>>
> >>> fixes for them are
> >>> 86f988434cd657e77cc9429e78f7290ce6b5713d
> >>> and
> >>> f695cde36a6829b8b92b2fd82deff16d9385fcb9
> >>
> >> And which regressions will these commits create themselves? :-)
> > 
> > Ah, wait: f695cde36a6829b8b92b2fd82deff16d9385fcb9 was already
> > included in 5.67.1,
> > I didn't notice that, my bad.
> > 
> > The other one is for https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417351 which
> > is rather subtle/not often happening.
> > So, I'm ok to go on the safe side and not release a v5.67.2.
> > 
> > --
> > Marco Martin
> > 
> 
> 






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