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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Can we get tags and tarballs for the KDE Qt patch collection
From:       Ahmad Samir <a.samirh78 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-06-08 13:21:41
Message-ID: 4aa6e5ec-4f1b-9b81-9d9f-9ebb7119715b () gmail ! com
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On 07/06/2021 22:52, Albert Astals Cid 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 ? 
> Cheers,
> Albert


Alternatively they could treat it like backported kernel patches? 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/blob/rawhide/f/Patchlist.changelog I don't \
know the  details but it's doable is what I am saying.

The thing is, IIUC the KDE Qt patch curators don't want to create a release, just a \
set of  "important" patches on top of the last open-source Qt release, i.e. deal with \
it like any other  project whose upstream hasn't made any new releases in a long \
time, but there are new commits in  git; I am sure most distro packagers have seen \
one or two cases as such.

My 2p.

Have a good day.

-- 
Ahmad Samir


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