From kde-release-team  Fri Sep 26 21:27:28 2008
From: Sune Vuorela <debian () pusling ! com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:27:28 +0000
To: kde-release-team
Subject: What to do and not do in third digit releases
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Hi

Some of you do probably not know me, while others do. I'm one of your frien=
dly=20
debian packagers. (Occasionally, I'm also one of your unfriendly debian=20
packagers, but that's hopefully rare)

When looking at 4.1.2 which is tagged and about to be released, there is a =
new=20
kind of change that we haven't earlier seen in the point releases. I don't=
=20
remember seing any discussions about it, so I'm bringing it up here.

The third digit releases is as far as I know bugfix only releases.

But here in 4.1.2, there is major changes to kdegraphics, to be more precis=
e=20
the libkdcraw library which has been rewritten and breaking ABI and having =
a=20
soname bump.

These changes are apparantly required for the upcoming digikam release (whi=
ch=20
might or might not be released before kde 4.2 gets released)

As this library isn't in kdelibs, but in kdegraphics, there isn't as such a=
=20
policy against breaking binary compability in this module, but doing it in =
a=20
third digit release might be something different.

So, I guess the release team should decide in between the following:

1) Branch is feature frozen, the changes should be reverted, but are welcom=
e=20
for kde 4.2 series.

2) Digikam is a so special app that it need a exception to usual policies f=
or=20
making it easier to do digikam (pre-)releases.=20

3) Change the policies of third digit releases in general and allow many mo=
re=20
new features in.

I personally would advocate 1. Let the new features and SONAME bump (and=20
digikam) wait for kde4.2.

Getting a decision within the next days is quite important, as it is relate=
d=20
to the kde4.1.2 release.

Thanks for your time

/Sune
=2D-=20
How to ping to the POP clock?

You never have to connect the 2D front-end to a code and from Windows you=20
either must doubleclick the BIOS, or must telnet to the tool on a GUI of th=
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3D kernel on a analogic hardware in order to forward from a GUI.

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