On Wednesday 05 September 2012 09:52:59 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2012 21:45:59 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El Dimecres, 5 de setembre de 2012, a les 21:06:55, Martin Graesslin va > > > > escriure: > > > On Tuesday 04 September 2012 22:41:10 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > > Hi KDE Packagers, > > > > > > > > unfortunately we have introduced a nasty regression while fixing a bug > > > > in > > > > KWin for 4.9.1 [1]. With the "wrong" settings and the wrong set of open > > > > windows distributed over multiple desktops this can result in a freeze. > > > > > > > > A freeze in KWin means that the compositor stops, that is the user has > > > > no > > > > chance to recover from this state unless he knows how to switch to a > > > > tty. > > > > > > > > In case you have not yet pushed out updates for kde-workspace I would > > > > kindly ask you to hold them off till we have a working and regression > > > > free fix. A patch is already attached to the bug, but I want to give it > > > > more time for testing tomorrow. > > > > > > > > As an alternative you could also revert git commit > > > > 567f8cc50082ce5307aa7163fdf3176446a1df5a which introduced the > > > > > > regression. > > > > > > > I will keep you informed when the patch has been committed to the > > > > branch. > > > > > > I just pushed the fix to KDE/4.9 branch of kde-workspace repository as > > > 8452e6c[1]. > > > > > > Sorry again for introducing this issue. > > > > So do we want a 4.9.1a tarball for kde-workspace or we trust packagers will > > just pick up the patch? > I guess it's less work to put out a new tarball and provide it to the distros > than all distros having to download the patch and include it in their > package, > right?
Hot fixes should be sent to kde-packagers as a patch, or even better as a commit number. Example: "Dear packagers, we found a bad bug in kde-foo that causes the following terrible things to happen. Please apply commit abc123 to your kde-foo packages and distribute this new version to your users as soon as possible." I don't think we want to respin tarballs for bugfixes. To my recollection, we never have. -Allen _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
