MRE for KDE Frameworks

Kees Cook kees at ubuntu.com
Tue Dec 2 00:32:25 UTC 2014


On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:33:00PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Hola Tech Board, I'd like to ask for a Micro Release Exception for KDE
> Frameworks, or depending on how you look at it extending the KDE Micro
> Release Exception to KDE Frameworks.
> 
> KDE Frameworks is the new name for kdelibs which was previously released
> with KDE SC.and we're done MRE updates for some years.
> 
> The KDE Frameworks developer have said they don't have the manpower to make
> bugfix releases and instead are making monthly releases with both bigfixes
> and new features.  There will be the same assurances of stable ABI, API and
> no new features coming from those ABIs.  So any applications using these
> libraries will not be using any new features but will be using the bugfixes.
> 
> Allowing the MRE will allow us to get bugfixes out to users, it'll also
> have the nice affect that developers wanting to use KDE Frameworks will
> have new versions available.

This seems entirely reasonable to me. Almost seems like we should add
something to the MRE policy that says something like "MREs will track
package names if a package is moved". If this is truly just kdelibs
renamed, I see no problem at all. :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook



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