Hi all, We have a little bit of an issue in PIM at the moment. It can be broken down into 3 separate issues, but overall from my perspective the PIM team is violating established practice in the community.
The first issue concerns the dependency bump to Qt 5.8. This has not announced or discussed on any community wide list, either prior or after the bump was made. As a consequence of this, a series of Extragear applications which previously could be built on FreeBSD can no longer be built. The second issue concerns maintenance of our internal metadata files, which define the dependencies between various bits of KDE software. These files are used by the CI system to provision dependencies, and kdesrc-build to sequence items to be built. Since the last release was branched the PIM developers have added a new dependency to kdepim-runtime. This change happened well over a week ago, and they have yet to update the metadata files accordingly. While this may seem minor, if someone is trying to build a single application and it's corresponding dependencies they'll run into problems because neither the CI system or kdesrc-build will know about this new dependency they've added. The third issue concerns the practice of version management within PIM. Currently the master branch of PIM is broken because it appears that one or more repositories have been missed in the latest round of bumping. Can the PIM developers please provide an explanation for these various breakages which they've made? Cheers, Ben
