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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