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In https://phabricator.kde.org/D3809#72205, @graesslin wrote: > In https://phabricator.kde.org/D3809#72177, @kfunk wrote: > > > This patch makes it impossible to build kwin on Ubuntu 16.10 (latest Ubuntu release) against distro libxkbcommon package -- isn't it possible to stay compatible with XKB 0.5.0 for some more time? > > > No it's not. Do you think I'm not aware of the fact that this will create a hassle? Well, I was surprised to see the version bump for this seemingly trivial change, thus I asked. Is it not possible to conditionally compile in some code based on the XKB version instead? "No it's not" isn't a satisfying explanation. I'm asking because I see more and more code bases in KDE requiring too-bleeding-edge software (hint: our kdepim stack), with all the consequences this has -- of which you're surely aware of. >> Note: looks like libxkbcommon-0.7.0 was released 2016-11-11, so just one month ago. > > Yes I know exactly when it was released. It was released also because *I* requested it. In https://phabricator.kde.org/D3809#72205, @graesslin wrote: > In https://phabricator.kde.org/D3809#72177, @kfunk wrote: > > > This patch makes it impossible to build kwin on Ubuntu 16.10 (latest Ubuntu release) against distro libxkbcommon package -- isn't it possible to stay compatible with XKB 0.5.0 for some more time? > > > No it's not. Do you think I'm not aware of the fact that this will create a hassle? > > > Note: looks like libxkbcommon-0.7.0 was released 2016-11-11, so just one month ago. > > Yes I know exactly when it was released. It was released also because *I* requested it. REPOSITORY R108 KWin REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D3809 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.kde.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: graesslin, #kwin, #plasma_on_wayland, sebas Cc: kfunk, plasma-devel, kwin, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, hardening, jensreuterberg, abetts, eliasp, sebas
