On Thursday 30 August 2012 18:42:40 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dijous, 30 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:52:02, David Faure va escriure: > > On Wednesday 29 August 2012 19:33:13 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > One of the release team files says > > > > > > When doing release, update: > > > * kdelibs/kdecore/sycoca/ksycoca.cpp --> ksycoca version number > > > > > > When does this need to happen? > > > > I think this is a "belt and suspenders" kind of thing (extra > > precaution)... > > in theory it's not necessary, kded will detect new desktop files on kde > > startup, or during the upgrade process if KDE is already running. > > > > I wonder if Waldo added that (long ago) for the case where we change > > fields > > in ksycoca and forget to increase the version number while doing so. > > > > On the other hand it happens that kdirwatch doesn't detect changes (there > > are dolphin bug reports about that), so I guess forcing a rebuild (via > > increasing the version number) can never hurt (it only makes the first > > login after the upgrade slightly slower). > > > > > For every release? For every .0 release? For every .0 release + for > > > alpha/beta/rc? > > > > We can't have new desktop files in bugfix releases, but OTOH we can have > > new translations in them, or modified Exec lines, etc. > > > > So (assuming we can't rely on kdirwatch), we'd have to increase it at > > every > > release (major, minor, bugfix, alpha/beta/rc). > > Ok, i've increased it for 4.9 branch, i guess it makes sense to increase it > in 4.10 too?
Yes but not now, at release time. It's a release step :-) -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. KDE Frameworks 5
