One other thing to note. All 5 of those libraries that are released with KDE Applications are kdelibs4/qt4 based on their master branches currently. To release them with KDE Applications 15.12 they need the frameworks branches merged to master branch.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Jeremy Whiting <[email protected]> wrote: > From a release team perspective I don't think we can/should move > libraries that are currently part of KDE Applications already to > extragear. We usually release applications with their dependencies > (except frameworks) at the same time. Releasing libkexiv2 from > extragear while okular in Applications uses it seems backwards to me. > Are all 5 of the libraries that are released with KDE Applications > used by applications that are also released with KDE Applications? > > BR, > Jeremy > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Alexander Potashev > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> (Luigi pushed me a lot so I finally start this discussion ;)) >> >> digiKam-5.0.0-beta1 is planned for October 18th, so we need to release >> its dependencies (KF5-based versions of libraries) at least as >> alpha/beta versions before that date: >> 1. libkipi (currently in KDE Applications) >> 2. libkface (currently in KDE Applications) >> 3. libkexiv2 (currently in KDE Applications) >> 4. libkdcraw (currently in KDE Applications) >> 5. libksane (currently in KDE Applications) >> 6. libkvkontakte (currently in extragear-libs) >> 7. libmediawiki (currently in extragear-libs) >> >> As listed above, many of these dependent libraries are currently part >> of KDE Applications, for example in KDE Applications 15.08.x we have >> kdelibs4-based editions of all 5 relevant libraries from the above >> list. >> >> I see two ways of releasing the 7 libraries mentioned above: >> Plan 1: Keep the first 5 ones in KDE Applications and make an alpha >> release of KDE Applications 15.12.x before October 18th. libkvkontakte >> and libmediawiki should also be released before that date, but they >> are not tied to KDE Applications release schedule. (Btw, is it OK if >> digikam-beta depends on kde-apps-alpha?) >> Plan 2: Move all these 7 libraries (their KF5-based versions) into >> extragear-libs and release them. >> >> Please tell us if any of these plans works better for you than the >> other, and why. Everyone are welcome to share their thoughts - >> packagers, KDE Apps release team, developers, etc. >> >> -- >> Alexander Potashev >> _______________________________________________ >> release-team mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
