Bug 409659

Summary:	kdesrc-build points to non-existing wiki page
Product:	[Developer tools] kdesrc-build	Reporter:	David Faure <faure>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Michael Pyne <mpyne>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdesrc-build/commit/21afc50ed5fa8519277a3b8cb24f9e022ed18565	Version Fixed/Implemented In:	19.08
Sentry Crash Report:

Description David Faure 2019-07-09 19:50:27 UTC

SUMMARY

https://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Distributions no longer exists.

Today kdesrc-build told me:

Unable to find meson. This program is absolutely essential for building
the modules: telepathy-accounts-signon.
Please ensure the development packages for
Meson are installed by using your distribution's package manager.

You can also see the
https://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Distributions page for
information specific to your distribution (although watch for outdated
information :( ).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Uninstall meson
2. kdesrc-build
3. or just grep kdesrc-build sources ;)

OBSERVED RESULT
Non-existing wiki page.

EXPECTED RESULT
No idea, I couldn't find a replacement wiki page with names of packages on various distros, AFAICS it got all deleted? Maybe just remove that part of the warning. People should know how to search for a package on their distro...

Comment 1 Michael Pyne 2019-07-10 01:03:00 UTC

Git commit 21afc50ed5fa8519277a3b8cb24f9e022ed18565 by Michael Pyne.
Committed on 10/07/2019 at 01:00.
Pushed by mpyne into branch 'master'.

buildsystem: Remove link to deleted wiki page.

As David points out, this bit of advice ("see this page for list of
packages for your distro") is probably not that helpful for a user who
has surely run into having to find a single package on their distro
already.
FIXED-IN:19.08

M  +1    -5    modules/ksb/Application.pm

https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdesrc-build/commit/21afc50ed5fa8519277a3b8cb24f9e022ed18565