Can we get tags and tarballs for the KDE Qt patch collection

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 8:52 AM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El dilluns, 7 de juny de 2021, a les 20:46:25 (CEST), Nate Graham va
> escriure:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > The Fedora packagers were mentioning to me today that it would be a lot
> > easier for them to ship Qt with our patch collection if we made tags and
> > tarballs. Is this something we could look into doing?
>
> We explicitly do not want to make releases
>   https://community.kde.org/Qt5PatchCollection#Will_there_be_releases.3F
>
> Making a release means having to use of a version number, and any version
> number we use will be wrong.
>
> Don't think this as a product, think of it as a central place where
> patches are collected.
>
> If they want a tarball because using git is a problem, they can always use
> https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/archive/kde/5.15/qtbase-kde-5.15.tar.bz2
> ?
>

Please note that automated services should not use the /archive/ endpoints
provided by Gitlab - they're for human use only.
The recommendation here would be for distributions to periodically manually
download snapshots (using the above endpoints if they wish) and then upload
those into their systems.


> Cheers,
>   Albert
>

Cheers,
Ben


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