Kaidan migration to testing

[Aurélien COUDERC]

--moving to pkg-kde-talk so the team is copied--

Le dimanche 24 janvier 2021, 23:40:41 CET Boris Pek a écrit :
> Hi Aurélien,

Dear Boris,

> How about uploading of Kaidan to official buster-backports?
> qxmpp/1.3.2-2~bpo10+1 is already there.

that would be awesome but… Kaidan has a dependency on Qt 5.12, KF5 5.67 and we 
only have 5.11 and 5.54 in stable… See [1], [2], [3], [4].

[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/kaidan/0.6.0-2/CMakeLists.txt/
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/k/kaidan/control-0.6.0-2
[4] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qtbase-opensource-src
[3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kirigami2

So that would require backporting Qt, the whole set of KF5 packages (more than 
100 IIRC) and check that we don’t break anything in the KDE stack (from 
experience this is unlikely, there are a lot of corner cases on top of even 
normal library ABI changes which makes than impractical) or also upgrade that. 
And then let’s call it Neon. ;)

For the record I’ve notified upstream about my/our plans to ship Kaidan for 
bullseye and they were receptive, to the point of considering a long term 
support branch if that was useful to us (no guarantee, no commitment, just 
discussion so far).

Besides that a 0.7.0 should be coming very soon that we can probably cram into 
bullseye.

> Also what do you think about adding of "Debian XMPP Maintainers" team to
> Uploaders of kaidan package while it still will be maintained under umbrella
> of "Debian KDE Extras" team?

If that’s of any use of course. Is it for getting the package on the team’s 
DDPO or/and anything else ?
If you’re interested in getting commit rights to the repo feel free to ping me 
in private, I’ll give you access.

> BTW, I added Kaidan to special wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/XMPP
> It should make it more visible I hope.

Thanks ! Appreciated.


Happy hacking,
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Aurélien