[Releasing] Testing: 08/22/2012 + linux-g++ [fail]

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:48 AM, ext Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

> On quinta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2012 08.39.30, lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
>> Fine for me to add, but I need someone to do the actual work and hack the
>> script generating the source packages. Are you signing up?
>> 
>> Currently all Qt packages are generated directly from qt5.git master, so
>> it's simply about extracting the sha1's for each submodule there.
> 
> Where's the script?

qtrepotools/release-tools contains it all.
> 
> Tarball generation should also happen *after* tagging, so Git embeds the tag 
> information into the tar ball.

Sure, but for now we don't use any tags yet.
> 
>> Currently, we always create things from a tested qt5.git sha1, so the CI
>> system has tested the modular building quite a bit already.
> 
> If the CI were enough, we wouldn't have this mailing list... ;-)

Yes, but it should ensure at least that things compile and pass basic tests.

Cheers,
Lars

> 
>>> I agree with that too. We declare that the building of documentation
>>> requires extracting all the source code, which is an inconvenient step.
>>> In fact, I'd accept that even in the 5.0 final. Most distros will simply
>>> use the online docs or packaged docs anyway.
>> 
>> Ok, agree here. Hopefully this will change however.
> 
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