Plasma 6 coming to unstable

[Sedat Dilek]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 1:15 PM Aurélien COUDERC <coucouf at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Dear fellow developers and Plasma users,
>
> after some months living in experimental and lots of positive feedback, we're about to upload Plasma 6 to unstable.
> The plans of the Qt / KDE team is to release Trixie with :
>     - Qt 5 & 6
>     - KDE Frameworks 5 aka KF5 (based on Qt 5) & KF6 (based on Qt6)
>     - Plasma 6 (based on KF6 and Qt6)
>     - KDE Gear applications of the moment. We expect to ship a mix of KF5 and KF6-based Gear applications depending on where upstream is with their porting effort of these mostly independent applications.
>
> What we won’t be supporting for Trixie are Plasma 5 libraries, so if you maintain rdeps of Plasma 5 libraries now is time to port them to Plasma 6 or to remove them from testing. We’ve filed bugs for all the rdeps not in our team’s perimeter some weeks back [1]. We will be bumping their severity to RC in preparation the upload of Plasma 6 to unstable. We've tried our best to identify affected packages but we may have missed some so if you know your packages depend on Plasma and they're not in this list please do double check compatibility with Plasma 6.
>
> There are cross-dependencies between some bits of Plasma, the accounts SSO stack, some KF5/6 libraries and some Gear apps, so expect some breakage in the online accounts functionality while the pieces are moving.
>
> Also we currently don’t have a satisfying way of ensuring the entirety of Plasma migrates to testing synchronously, so when Plasma 6 packages start migrating to testing you’ll have to be extra careful with what your apt / Discover upgrades announce to avoid removing your desktop.
>
>
> Happy hacking,
> --
> Patrick & Aurélien for the Qt/KDE Team
>
>
> [1] Plasma 5 rdeps bugs :
> - kaccounts-integration (from Gear, needed by Plasma for Online Accounts integration) :
>    - plasma-gmailfeed (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079539)
> - kdecoration :
>    - bismuth (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1087668)
> - kpipewire :
>    - plasma-mobile (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079559)
> - libkscreen :
>    - lxqt-config (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079809)
>    - peony (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079810)
>    - ukui-control-center (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079811)
>    - ukui-settings-daemon (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079812)
>    - ukui-panel (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079813)
> - qqc2-breeze-style :
>    - calindori (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079660)
>    - koko (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079661)
>    - plasma-mobile (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079662)
> - signond (from the Accounts SSO stack) :
>    - accounts-qml-module (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086789)
>    - buteo-sync-plugin-carddav (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086788)
>    - buteo-sync-plugins (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086787)
>    - buteo-syncfw (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086782)
>    - lomiri-online-accounts (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086781)
>    - lomiri-online-accounts-plugin-owncloud (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086800)
>    - lomiri-sync-monitor (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086780)
>

Thanks to all users who give feedback!
Special thanks to Debian QT/KDE team as well for Upstream QT/KDE developers,

Nice, I see KDE/Plasma version 6.2.3 now in unstable.

Maybe you can give an information about versions of KDE/Frameworks and
KDE/Gear (KDE/Apps)?
Or even QT6 version.

What are the plans and ambitions for upcoming Debian/trixie aka
Debian-13 release?
Especially asking QT5/QT6 and KF5/KF6 compatibility.

The only QT5/KF5 based package I really won't miss is quassel IRC-client.
Will this still be available or a candidate to be removed?
Can you clarify this?

I checked my upgrade-logs and it was 21-July-2024 when I first
installed plasma-desktop 6.1.0
and
with a selfmade kontrast 24.08.3 package I have now all (installed)
KDE/apps with version 24.08.x (x=0,1,2,3).

Nice - really nice.

Thanks again!

Best regards,
-Sedat-

Link: https://kde.org/de/announcements/