Debian trixie and Kf5 (and kbibtex)

[Aurélien COUDERC]

[Moving to pkg-kde-talk where we discuss packaging topics]

Le 6 janvier 2025 02:52:40 GMT+01:00, Antonio Russo <aerusso at aerusso.net> a écrit :
>Hello!

Hi Antonio !

>tldr: Is Kf5 being removed before trixie is released?

tldr: as of now : no. We currently plan to release trixie with both kf5 and kf6.

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>In particular, I'm trying to make sure that kbibtex (a LaTeX
>bibliography manager) makes it into trixie.  My concern is
>that Kf5 may be removed from trixie.  I feel like I read this
>somewhere, but I cannot find anything authoritative.
>
>If so, I'd appreciate any input on my attempt to get a Kf6
>version of it into Debian [1].  The issue is that kbibtex is
>mature software, and hasn't seen a release for over a year.
>That release is already in Debian but does not build against
>QT6/Kf6.  Git master does, and I've built a local package that
>seems to work (but honestly needs more testing given my
>somewhat random choice of development snapshot).  I was hoping
>to get this maybe into experimental for a bit, and then into
>testing right before the freeze.

Like already said kf5 is probably not going away.
It still sounds like a good idea to get the Qt6 version ready. Less and less maintenance is going into the Qt5/KF5 stscks anyway.

Best would be to submit an MR against the Salsa repo I guess ?
The package is currently under the Debian Science Team's maintainership bit I'll try giving it a look.


Happy hacking,
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Aurélien