Hi,
On Wednesday, May 17, 2023 00:02 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> If we're going to support a period on which we ship both Kf5 and KF6 based
> applications we need to:
>
> Make sure kf5 and kf6 are coinstallable.
I'm currently packaging a first KF6 snapshot in OpenMandriva. Looks pretty good
already, but there's still a few problems with coinstallability, esp. when
building man pages is enabled (some of them still have *5 names, conflicting
with the identical parts in kf5, even where corresponding binaries have been
renamed).
Of course some bits like kded still use conflicting *5 names even for the core
parts.
> a) release two tarballs, one for each KF
> b) release one tarball that compiles both for kf5 and kf6
> c) just release the kf6 tarball, stop releasing the kf5 tarball but ask
> distributions to still install it
>
> What's everyone's preference?
Depends: If the code is virtually the same with a few ifdefs, b) is good to
make sure the kf5 version still gets fixes when all development has moved on.
If the divergence becomes too big, either a) or c) works for us - probably no
need for frequent releases of the kf5 version (so that would be c) + possibly a
kf5 release if a major bug is found/fixed, but not necessarily with every kf6
release).
ttyl
bero
