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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: RFC: Release Management Going Forward
From:       todd rme <toddrme2178 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-07-17 12:45:13
Message-ID: CADb7s=tRKumbiR3fu=1_ijT45R=bS5FZHS0yC1ttDhoSydx5Dw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>
>> Let me dump my brain and add how I see release management going forward
>> from here:
>>
>> = KDE SC 4.x =
>> * monolithic tarballs, layout like 4.6.0 release
>> * no disruption in packages
>> * git migration should not have effect on released tarball layout to keep
>>   packagers' lives easy
>> * optional split tarballs (split/ subdirectory?)
>
> I would welcome this immensely, even if a bit late.
>
> I know a couple distros (fedora, kubuntu at least) had serious complaints
> about the the current tarball splitting, but have begrudingly been putting
> in a lot of effort to adapt anyway for lack of repreive.
>
> -- rex

On the other hand distros like Arch and openSUSE are already using
split tarballs and have been for some time.  Going back would probably
make things harder for them.  I am not sure about Fedora, but my
impression is that Kubuntu has already pretty much finished the work
doing the conversion.

-Todd
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