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Subject:    Re: Broken build of KDE Base Apps and unauthorized increase in dependency
From:       Dawit A <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-09-11 13:05:40
Message-ID: CALa28R4PQKB6MHrdOVW_4rau3vi1qR5H3ko=Lv_PmpzD5ZYFng () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote:

> Hi Dawit,
>
> It has come to my attention that since commit
> 603a93268efb9d09f8c6255907f46928c651fdbd to kde-baseapps master, the
> build for it has been broken.
> This is due to it depending on new features, present only in the KDE/4.9
> branch.
>

That is only a temporary situation. All the changes in the 4.9 branch are
periodically merged into
the 4.10 branch by David, but I guess that does not resolve this issue.



> This is problematic because:
> - kde-baseapps depends upon a minimum of 4.7.97 (ie. KDE 4.8) which
> obviously is no longer the case. It depends upon unreleased code.
>

Ahh... I was not aware of this was a requirement though I still do not
understand why we have started insisting on forward compatibility.
Regardless, I will fix this since it is only a matter of wrapping the code
with #ifdef.


> - This feature will not be in KDE 4.10 at the moment, because the
> feature was added to KDE/4.9 instead of KDE/4.10 as it should have
> been.
>

It is not a new feature. It is a bug fix. It is needed to fix the directory
filter plugin for Konqueror.

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Ben Cooksley <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:bcooksley@kde.org" target="_blank">bcooksley@kde.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


Hi Dawit,<br>
<br>
It has come to my attention that since commit<br>
603a93268efb9d09f8c6255907f46928c651fdbd to kde-baseapps master, the<br>
build for it has been broken.<br>
This is due to it depending on new features, present only in the KDE/4.9 \
branch.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is only a temporary situation. All the changes in the \
4.9 branch are periodically merged into</div>


<div>the 4.10 branch by David, but I guess that does not resolve this issue.  </div><div><br></div><div>  \
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">This is problematic because:<br>


- kde-baseapps depends upon a minimum of 4.7.97 (ie. KDE 4.8) which<br>
obviously is no longer the case. It depends upon unreleased \
code.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ahh... I was not aware of this was a requirement though I still \
do not understand why we have started insisting on forward compatibility. Regardless, I will fix this \
since it is only a matter of wrapping the code with #ifdef.</div>

<div>  </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
                solid;padding-left:1ex">
- This feature will not be in KDE 4.10 at the moment, because the<br>
feature was added to KDE/4.9 instead of KDE/4.10 as it should have<br>
been.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is not a new feature. It is a bug fix. It is needed to fix \
the directory filter plugin for Konqueror.</div></div>



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