Kevin Kofler <[email protected]> wrote:
>Andrea Diamantini wrote: >> Ok, let's wait 18 months to see private browsing fixed. Going to >update >> bug reports... > >Try nagging distros to backport your (or your contributors') patches. >Unfortunately, it looks like trying to convince the kdelibs maintainers >at >KDE is a lost cause, as you can see from this and other threads. :-( >They >just don't care about their users anymore, instead focusing only on >some >ideal future. > >I talked to my fellow Fedora KDE packagers on IRC today and it looks >like >we'll be "backporting" (or rather, applying, since 4.x is what they got > >developed against) the kde#54300 patches. > >Of course, whenever you ask distros to backport features, it helps if >you >can already offer a patch(set) against 4.x (as is the case for the >kde#54300 >patches), since backporting from Frameworks is more work. (Whether the >patch >is against 4.8, 4.7 or even 4.6 usually won't matter, as long as it's >4.x.) It is probably worth a discussion on packagers to share cross-distro ideas about what kdelibs feature patches to ship with 4.8. Having some commonality at least among the distros seemslike a good idea to me. Scott K
