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Tracking down a library bug

So today I had noticed I had build failures in quite a few modules that were based on errors linking to libkipi, involving undefined references to KIPI::ImageInfoShared::~ImageInfoShared().

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15 years of KDE

I’m almost late to the party, but then it’s never too late to commemorate something as notable as 15 years of development.

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2 new kdesrc-build releases

So after 6 months of work I released kdesrc-build 1.14 with quite a few changes/fixes. 4 days later I released 1.14.1 (mostly to help mitigate an effect of a change in 1.14 which I’ll cover at the end). Without further ado, I’ll list some of the important changes.

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Desktop Summit 2011

For what seems like the umpteenth year in a row, events have conspired to prevent my attending Desktop Summit/Akademy. :( However, I did want to pass on my well-wishes for a successful summit, and hopefully some constructive interaction with our GNOME counterparts and other guests.

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Good job Aaron

243 votes. 61 duplicated bugs (as of this post). 21 backtraces submitted as attachments. 5 months of troubleshooting. 1 detailed Valgrind log. And now, Aaron Seigo has figured out and fixed Bug 258706, a crash in Plasma related to the system tray (often but not always with Amarok).

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Perl hijinks

So I’ve been trying to modularize my kdesrc-build Perl script (i.e. actually split it into logical objects/modules) and yet still retain it all into one script, the idea being to get the logic into a more understandable state where possible and overall make the codebase less brittle.

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kdesrc-build 1.13

I’m too tired to go too deep into the changes in the kdesrc-build 1.13 release, but the largest is that module data from projects.kde.org can now be used to build git modules.

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May you live in interesting times….

So, given the accelerating rate of KDE project migration to git.kde.org, I felt it was prudent to finally make a kdesrc-build release, for those who don’t follow kdesrc-build development in trunk.

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