Kaidan migration to testing

[Boris Pek]

>>  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…

Eh, I was not aware of this...

> 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.

Yep, it does not make any sense.

Also if Kaidan really uses new features from Qt 5.12 and KF5 5.67 then
backporting it to older Qt and KF5 may not be so trivial and require too
much time.

> 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.

Great news!

>>  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 ?

Yes, as far Kaidan is more close to XMPP topic than was Kopete I was thinking
that its bug reports and updates may be interested to members of "Debian XMPP
Maintainers" team (automatic emails to mailing list).

Also it would be visible at:
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-xmpp-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org
But this is not the main reason of course.

> If you’re interested in getting commit rights to the repo feel free to ping me
> in private, I’ll give you access.

No, I do not think I'll have time for one more package. Sorry.

Best wishes,
Boris