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Subject: Re: KF5 kio-extras and future releases
From: Heiko Becker <heiko.becker () kde ! org>
Date: 2024-05-17 21:17:39
Message-ID: ec719d2d-0018-45b1-88c1-50857d8a5455 () kde ! org
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On Sunday, 28 April 2024 12:43:05 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> I have not included a package of the kf5 branch of kio-extras
> in the KDE Gear
> 24.05 release.
>
> [...]
>
> In my mind it's a no and i'll explain the reasons below, feel
> free to disagree
> or prove my points nonsense.
>
> As far as I understand kio-extras-kf5 was created because:
> A) We needed a KF6 kio-extras so that KF6 apps can use extra-kio stuff
> B) We needed a KF5 kio-extras that could be coinstalled with the above KF6
> kio-extras so that KF5 apps can use extra-kio stuff
>
> Now, question is should we keep releasing kio-extras-kf5 or not?
>
> [...]
>
> It could happen that we need a very important bugfix to
> kio-extras-kf5 and it
> would be commited to that branch and we would need to do a release.
>
> But given how that doesn't seem super likely and how much of a
> pain it is to
> our release process to release it (we need to release two tarballs from the
> same repo but from different branches) I would really really say, no, we
> don't release it with every single KDE Gear release (until we drop KF5
> support), if there's any eventual bugfix we'll just release a
> new tarball (in
> the 24.02.x naming?).
I very much agree that the pain to release it together with gear isn't
worth the gain having a (most likely) almost unchanged tarball every month.
As said, if there's need we can just do a stand-alone release.
Regards,
Heiko
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