On Sunday, 28 April 2024 12:43:05 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
I have not included a package of the kf5 branch of kio-extras
in the KDE Gear
24.05 release.
[...]
In my mind it's a no and i'll explain the reasons below, feel
free to disagree
or prove my points nonsense.
As far as I understand kio-extras-kf5 was created because:
A) We needed a KF6 kio-extras so that KF6 apps can use extra-kio stuff
B) We needed a KF5 kio-extras that could be coinstalled with the above KF6
kio-extras so that KF5 apps can use extra-kio stuff
Now, question is should we keep releasing kio-extras-kf5 or not?
[...]
It could happen that we need a very important bugfix to
kio-extras-kf5 and it
would be commited to that branch and we would need to do a release.
But given how that doesn't seem super likely and how much of a
pain it is to
our release process to release it (we need to release two tarballs from the
same repo but from different branches) I would really really say, no, we
don't release it with every single KDE Gear release (until we drop KF5
support), if there's any eventual bugfix we'll just release a
new tarball (in
the 24.02.x naming?).
I very much agree that the pain to release it together with gear isn't
worth the gain having a (most likely) almost unchanged tarball every month.
As said, if there's need we can just do a stand-alone release.
Regards,
Heiko
