continuous packaging? anyone?

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Aug 11 21:36:49 UTC 2014


On Monday, August 11, 2014 23:30:57 Harald Sitter wrote:
> > - some of the packaging is really version centered (e.g. most games have a
> > >= source:Version dep on kdegames-data which is from libkdegames) which
> > would need fixing or packages will just be uninstallable - unless you
> > build the whole full package set each day and only keep the date in the
> > version. You might want to talk to debian about that or we'll just
> > increase our diff.
> Sounds like we are abusing version alignment TBH.

No.  We're making the packaging system match upstream requirements.

There are similar issues elsewhere.  Even though KF5 is on a different release 
schedule than Plasma 5 and applications, there is no expectation that you can 
mix a random set of KF5 modules together and have them work.  They have to be 
from the same release.

Scott K



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