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

[Fabian Vogt]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2021, 12:51:35 CEST schrieb Neal Gompa:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:52 PM 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 ?
> >
> 
> You *already* are using version numbers and bumped it to 5.15.3:
> https://blog.neon.kde.org/2021/06/04/kde-neons-qt-is-now-built-from-kdes-git-branches/

No, that was done in upstream Qt's 5.15 branch when 5.15.2 got prepared.

New version numbers and releases would be necessary if new features get
introduced by backported patches, but FWICT that is explicitly against the
goal.

See https://community.kde.org/Qt5PatchCollection.

Cheers,
Fabian

> This is unreasonable if you're going to make us need fixes from there.
> I'd rather we didn't pretend this is something other than what it is:
> a community maintained uplift of Qt 5.15 while Plasma works to move to
> Qt 6.
> 
> Also, that URL is unstable, you'd get different things each time you'd
> fetch from it based on the HEAD of that branch.
> 
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