[Development] Development Digest, Vol 6, Issue 66

[haithem rahmani]

Hi,

>On 20.3.2012 11.11, "marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com"
> ><marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Please don't create the tags yet though. I've heard that there are a
> >>couple of things that needs to be fixed first, though I have not received
> >>an email on the issues yet.
> >
> >
> >If there is something critical, we can of course fix. But since 4.8.1 is
> >done without a branch, we can not easily pick any single items into the
> >source. We would by default need to take in all the contributions up until
> >the fix, which causes all items to be re-done and tested. As there is a
> >large amount of eagerly waited fixes already in 4.8.1 I would not like to
> >wait a couple of more weeks with it (as would be the case if we start over
> >with the testing).
>
> The thing is, if there's issues that needs to be fixed coming from the
> legal scan, we have no option, we need to fix them before we can
> distribute the package.
>

I've found the following bug when using the qt-4.8.0:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81699

it is a bit critical for me.
Do I have to fill  in bugreports.qt-project.org ?



>
> The solution then _could_ be to apply changes to the normal 4.8 branch,
> and then we can cherry-pick only those changes on top of the current SHA1
> and tag that. (A tag can be a commit, alas, does _not_ have to be a SHA1
> from any of the branches. So, it's fully possible.)


regards.
Haithem.

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