Pushing Plasma updates to bookwork

[Aurélien COUDERC]

Le 21 avril 2023 11:23:55 GMT+02:00, Hefee <hefee at debian.org> a écrit :
>Hi,

Dear hefee,

thank you for your feedback, I was feeling lonely. 🙂

>> > I'm *not* trying again with Plasma. I don't have better arguments than for
>> > Frameworks and I don't expect the same kind of inputs to get a different
>> > output.
>
>One idea of my side is to get in contact with release team and to lead the 
>request. One option in my head is, that we may ship the new Plasma version 
>with a point release. That at least would be a compromise:
>Get the release ready soon, but users will get the bugfixes. Okay a little bit 
>later.

Sounds good to me. Anything that can help us push the Plasma bugfix releases to stable is excellent.
Versions .3 and .4 already fix numerous issues with screen management, scaling and dpi, screen casting, clipboard management, gtk apps styling, and a good bunch of other fixes scattered throughout the desktop. And .5 should be out by the time a point release arrives with yet another set of fixes.

To say the truth before your email I was starting to wonder if it was even a good idea to ship Plasma to stable with so many known bug fixed upstream.

I also value the stability goal we aims for for Debian but in this instance I think we're approaching it the wrong way. For me Plasma should be considered more like Firefox or the kernel where we (maintainers) can choose to trust upstream to do the right thing for their stable branches when we feel it's appropriate.


Happy hacking !
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Aurélien