On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 8:52 AM Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote:
> El dilluns, 7 de juny de 2021, a les 20:46:25 (CEST), Nate Graham va > escriure: > > Hello folks, > > > > The Fedora packagers were mentioning to me today that it would be a lot > > easier for them to ship Qt with our patch collection if we made tags and > > tarballs. Is this something we could look into doing? > > We explicitly do not want to make releases > https://community.kde.org/Qt5PatchCollection#Will_there_be_releases.3F > > Making a release means having to use of a version number, and any version > number we use will be wrong. > > Don't think this as a product, think of it as a central place where > patches are collected. > > If they want a tarball because using git is a problem, they can always use > https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/archive/kde/5.15/qtbase-kde-5.15.tar.bz2 > ? > Please note that automated services should not use the /archive/ endpoints provided by Gitlab - they're for human use only. The recommendation here would be for distributions to periodically manually download snapshots (using the above endpoints if they wish) and then upload those into their systems. > Cheers, > Albert > Cheers, Ben > > > > > Nate > > > > > > >
