Am 2017-01-05 16:11, schrieb Kevin Kofler:
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
So you are also stepping up to maintain this! Awesome. If not please
don't tell me anything about how to maintain KWin.
The new xkbcommon requirement is also an issue for us in Fedora. The
new
xkbcommon 0.7.0 is only available in Rawhide and it is doubtful that it
will
ever be backported to Fedora 25 or 24.
We are providing an LTS release for a reason. Please do not backport to
older Fedora! It will have less support from upstream than 5.8.
So, if we cannot get libxkbcommon
updated, we will either be unable to provide your new Plasma releases
for
our stable releases, or we will be forced to add a patch to revert your
dependency bump, as we already had to do for Qt in the past:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/qt5-qtbase.git/tree/qtbase-opensource-src-5.3.2-old_xkbcommon.patch?id=e26fd4ffda851bfe13d975547e218e16f72ce556
(Yes, this reintroduced a bug. It was just not possible to fix that bug
with
the xkbcommon that was available in the Fedora 19 release. Fedora 20
eventually got the xkbcommon update, so we were able to drop this patch
there. We still had to patch Qt for the old xcb-xkb (which could not be
updated due to a soname bump) though.)
Similar for Mesa 13 which I'm also eagerly waiting for build.kde.org
to
fetch it.
Mesa 13 is news to me.
This is also an issue for us: Mesa 13 is only available in Fedora 25
(updates) and Rawhide, not in Fedora 24.
This is not an issue to you at all, because it is a runtime dependency
of a system only used in tests.
Cheers
Martin
