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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: New Feature for kdelibs (Was: The case for a kdelibs 4.8)
From:       Scott Kitterman <kde () kitterman ! com>
Date:       2011-11-15 18:17:45
Message-ID: ac69f5cf-ac1d-429d-a751-b3cecdb3b9ef () email ! android ! com
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Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:

> Andrea Diamantini wrote:
> > Ok, let's wait 18 months to see private browsing fixed. Going to
> update
> > bug reports...
> 
> Try nagging distros to backport your (or your contributors') patches. 
> Unfortunately, it looks like trying to convince the kdelibs maintainers
> at 
> KDE is a lost cause, as you can see from this and other threads. :-(
> They 
> just don't care about their users anymore, instead focusing only on
> some 
> ideal future.
> 
> I talked to my fellow Fedora KDE packagers on IRC today and it looks
> like 
> we'll be "backporting" (or rather, applying, since 4.x is what they got
> 
> developed against) the kde#54300 patches.
> 
> Of course, whenever you ask distros to backport features, it helps if
> you 
> can already offer a patch(set) against 4.x (as is the case for the
> kde#54300 
> patches), since backporting from Frameworks is more work. (Whether the
> patch 
> is against 4.8, 4.7 or even 4.6 usually won't matter, as long as it's
> 4.x.)


It is probably worth a discussion on packagers to share cross-distro ideas about what \
kdelibs feature patches to ship with 4.8. Having some commonality at least among the \
distros seemslike a good idea to me.

Scott K


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