Plasma 6 coming to unstable

[Aurélien COUDERC]

[dropping debian-kde user list for this more packaging focused question]

Le dimanche 24 novembre 2024, 13:40:02 UTC+1 Marco Mattiolo a écrit :
> Hi Patrick & Aurélien,

Dear Marco,

> thank you for the note. This is great news!

Yes, we like it. :)
And thank you for working on the mobile stack. One day we must discuss whether it really makes sense to have separate initiatives / teams for mobile & desktop Plasma. ;)

> I'd rather ask to stay on the safe side: will you upload to sid the packages that are now in experimental (i.e. Plasma 6.2.1)?

No, I have the packages 6.2.3 more or less ready and these are the ones I’ll be uploading.
Currently experimental has a mix of 6.2.1 (most packages) plus the very few packages from 6.2.2 having actual code changes since 6.2.1.

> Background of my question, plasma-mobile build-depends on kwin with same point release, then whatever kwin version you plan to
> upload, I will finalize the packaging of the same version for plasma-mobile.

Is that theoretical or effective ?
Because as much as upstream does bump cross-plasma build-deps accross point releases, it’s rarely an actual issue to mix patch levels and more related to their release automation pipeline.

The more so when most of the packages don’t have a single line of code changed as was the case for 6.2.2.
In this case I just reverted the cross package build deps bump and that’s what’s in experimental today.

Anyway feel free to prepare 6.2.3 for the mobile bits, I think it’s better not to start with mixed patch levels for the first unstable upload.


Thanks !

Happy hacking,
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Aurélien