Ship bugfix release to stable

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Hefee, hi.

Thanks for bringing this up.

Hefee - 12.10.24, 16:07:10 MESZ:
> 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.

Well… considering that during Debian Stable cycle AFAIK Firefox gets 
updated from one Firefox ESR release to another with lots of smaller ESR 
updates in between… is there anything policy-wise speaking against during 
complete minor LTS releases for Debian Stable? (I just took Firefox as an 
example. I think it is similar for Thunderbird and probably some other.)

Of course more importantly is a question of time needed to do that. The 
team is small. But probably just updating all packages instead of trying 
to cherry-pick just some fixes would actually be less work?

Also I bet it would create a lot less confusion for upstream. It would be 
confusing when some of the issues fixed in LTS are fixed in Debian but 
others are not. Also, it may safe time not to do every LTS release but 
"only" do every second one or whenever there is a set of important issues 
that an update would close? Actually I bet Plasma 5 LTS releases are more 
rare these times? Have there been talks to discontinue Plasma 5 LTS as 
soon as enough distros had the chance to switch to Plasma 6? I think I 
read somewhere about it, but I am not sure anymore.

Just some thoughts and questions as someone who is primarily involved with 
testing and supporting Plasma / KDE user community on Debian. I am still 
pondering to help with packaging, but at the moment I need to be very 
careful not to load too much onto my shoulders.

Best,
-- 
Martin