On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Rex Dieter <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
