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List:       kde-frameworks-devel
Subject:    Re: ATTN: latest changes in breeze-icons make packaging untenable
From:       Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date:       2016-10-25 15:21:35
Message-ID: 1836883.0aOZxT1SZO () martin-desktop
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On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 4:47:40 PM CEST Luca Beltrame wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> recent changes in breeze broke building in openSUSE's OBS: after a
> discussion on IRC, it turned out that there were incorrect symlinks.
> Adjustments were made in order to preserve space. However, while
> harmless at first (I didn't notice earlier, and CI was green) these
> changes *break* packaging for most systems.
> 
> The reason? Directories became symlinks, hence a package manager can't
> fix that, it will totally break when a package updates (because it will
> try to symlink something existent).
> 
> Therefore there is *no* way the current state of breeze-icons can be
> installed a the moment by any sane distribution. No problem for now,
> but Frameworks are monthly releases, so...
> 
> This needs to be fixed, even if at the cost of wasting space (but
> making packagers much happier).
> 
> If there's no consensus, I will revert these commits [1][2][3][4] in
> breeze-icons by Sunday morning.

+1 go for it. Sorry for the problems this caused to distros. As a reminder to 
our devs and designers: frameworks have a review policy. the commits mentioned 
by Luca have no Review hint. Please don't push without prior review - 
especially not if you change something like that. We could have get the 
expertise in during the review.

Cheers
Martin
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