Ship bugfix release to stable

[Hefee]

Hey,

at Akademy I had a discussion, if Plasma LTS is a success or useless. The KDE 
devs are unhappy, that we don't ship the plasma lts bugfix releases to Debian 
stable. And because distros don't ship the bugfix releases, the KDE devs don't 
see the success of an LTS release.
I tried to point out that the LTS is at least for Debian useful, as otherwise 
we would have shipped Plasma 5.27.2.

As KDE see a lot of bugreports from Debian users, for stuff that is already 
fixed in an bugfix release. I asked Nate about the most annoying bug, that they 
are facing:
"""
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468180

It's fixed in Plasma 5.27.9 or later, with a version of the KDE Qt Patch 
Collection that includes 
https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtdeclarative/-/commit/
453b1cb207cf3ce35b906c21c9f04a17d66074a7.
"""

Don't know about my time the next weeks, maybe I'll find some time to look into 
it.

Regards,

hefee

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On Donnerstag, 3. Oktober 2024 18:45:32 CEST elektron via pkg-kde-talk wrote:
> Dear GNOME/GTK packagers, packaging KDE Plasma for Debian,
> 
> Please be advised that our KDE 5 series contains (after second dot in
> sub-versioning number) only and only bug fixes (and translations). These
> are not new software but only bug-fixing sub-versions. Hence in Debian 12,
> dear friends, you are missing over a year of (only- sic!) bug fixes! As
> these are not new versions, they are safe to update and are in line with
> Debian policies of not introducing new software (new software could
> introduce new bugs itself, we at KDE get it!). This is not such a case
> here, as these sub-versions (second dot) are not a new software per se, but
> only bugfixes. We hope this clarifies our versioning numbers that are
> posted clearly in our public (we've never hidden this info) table as BUGFIX
> ONLY:
> 
> https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5
> (Scroll down to the table called "History and Releases")
> 
> 5.27.0 Release Thu 2023-02-09 Tue 2023-02-14 Final tag from Plasma/5.27
> branch, only urgent fixes approved by release mangler after tars please
> 5.27.1 Bugfix Tue 2023-02-21 Bug fixes and new translations only from
> Plasma/5.27 branch 5.27.2 Bugfix Tue 2023-02-28 Bug fixes and new
> translations only from Plasma/5.27 branch 5.27.3 Bugfix Tue 2023-03-14 Bug
> fixes and new translations only from Plasma/5.27 branch 5.27.4 Bugfix Tue
> 2023-04-04 Bug fixes and new translations only from Plasma/5.27 branch
> 5.27.5 Bugfix Tue 2023-05-09 Bug fixes and new translations only from
> Plasma/5.27 branch 5.27.6 Bugfix Tue 2023-06-20 Bug fixes and new
> translations only from Plasma/5.27 branch 5.27.7 Bugfix Tue 2023-08-01 Bug
> fixes and new translations only from Plasma/5.27 branch 5.27.8 Bugfix Tue
> 2023-09-12 Bug fixes and new translations only from Plasma/5.27 branch
> 5.27.9 Bugfix Tue 2023-10-24 Bug fixes and new translations only from
> Plasma/5.27 branch 5.27.10 Bugfix Tue 2023-12-05 Bug fixes and new
> translations only from Plasma/5.27 branch 5.27.11 Bugfix Wed 2024-03-06 Bug
> fixes and new translations only from Plasma/5.27 branch
> 
> P.S.We don't care about RH/IBM agenda. We are the community and we wish our
> community the best.

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