New KDE Frameworks Versions as SRU

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 09:34:43AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > KDE Frameworks has no bugfix releases because upstream decided they didn't
> > have the resources to make them.  Instead they have new releases every
> > month with both bugfixes and new features.  However these are libraries so
> > applications will be using the existing ABI and that ABI (the symbols) is
> > not allowed to change.  The functionality of those symbols is also not
> > allowed to change.  Any new features are in new symbols and existing
> > applications won't use them.  So updates in the archive will be bugfix only
> > for applications in the archive.
> 
> They already failed at this once, so I don't feel confident in this assertion.

They introduced a regression but that wasn't while adding a new
feature it was while adding a bugfix.  This also happened with
kdelibs.

> We got the exception for KDE4 because upstream had an updates policy (which 
> you wrote/socialized upstream) that was consistent with our SRU requirements.  
> This is not true for KF5.  I don't think that the fact that there was an 
> exception for KDE4 is relevant.
> 
> The upstream maintenance policy is clearly at odds with our SRU policy, so an 
> exception is inappropriate.  Consider that it's called a micro-release 
> exception and upstream has decided they aren't doing micro-releases at all.

The KDE Minor Point Release Policy isn't used for KDE Frameworks
indeed but they are libraries, they don't change the ABI or the
features they expose so the only relevant parts of the update are
bugfixes.  It should be quite possible to get it in an Ubuntu SRU.
I'd like to ask the tech board at the least.

Jonathan