On 2017 M01 5, Thu 16:11:43 CET Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ben Cooksley wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > >> It should be rather obvious that we don't introduce new dependencies > >> because we like to. There is a very important software reason to it. > >> That's the case for the xkbcommon dependency increase. Should I have let > >> the code broken as it was, expecting half a year of bug reports till > >> build.kde.org has the base upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04? > > > > That's what #ifdef is for... > > +1 > > The new xkbcommon requirement is also an issue for us in Fedora.
IMO bumping dependencies is not only a problem for CI and distros, but also for normal contributors. Alex