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Nikos Chantziaras posted on Wed, 11 May 2011 15:44:35 +0300 as excerpted: |
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> On 05/11/2011 03:32 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: |
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>> Dne 11.5.2011 13:05, Nikos Chantziaras napsal(a): |
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>>> Why did the bump to Qt 4.7.3 happen? AFAIK, it only contains Symbian |
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>>> changes, and Gentoo does not run on the Symbian platform. |
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>> With this approach you could ask why we bump each kde release. |
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>> As most of the apps does not change at all. |
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> I don't know :-P Avoiding needless bumps was, IIRC, one of the reasons |
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> Gentoo uses split ebuilds. Anyway, I mentioned this because in the |
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> past, at least one time, a version bump for Qt was omitted exactly |
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> because there were no changes. |
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I have in fact wondered about just that. Back when the kde split ebuilds |
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were being created, one of the big advantages was said to be that most kde |
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bumps didn't actually change anything for most apps, and we could keep the |
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same versions. But recently I've seen comments from the kde folks saying |
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most don't, but we bump anyway, and I know everything does seem to be |
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bumped. |
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Is that simply because it's simpler to track everything at the same |
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version, instead of having kdelibs at 4.6.3 and kmail, for instance, still |
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at 4.6.0? (That was in fact one of my worries with the initial thinking, |
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that it'd be difficult to know whether upstream had updated and gentoo/kde |
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had problems with it for gentoo and hadn't updated, or whether upstream |
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simply hadn't updated that package. When the versions are all synced with |
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upstream regardless of changes, that's not an issue, even if it does mean |
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much more "useless" building.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |