On 10/12/2020 18:12, Joe McEntire wrote: > I don't know where this information is coming from, but 5.19.5 is in testing > right now. Experimental has 5.20 and there's talk of getting 5.20.5 in time > for the freeze, so we'll probably end up with some iteration of 5.20 in > stable > if I had to take a stab at it. I cannot imagine a world where Debian's KDE > team puts in all the work to get these newer versions in, just to roll back > to > something that is older than what is in current stable. Current stable > (Buster) uses 5.14! So rest easy, there's no way we're going to have 5.12 or > 5.8 in stable, it's just not a thing. > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kwin > I understand the question as why is debian targeting 5.20 for the next stable instead of 5.18 LTS. The answer is simple: LTS means 1.5 year of support, maybe more [1]. That's not long enough for the debian release cycle: 5.18 was at the beginning of this year. That means support will end at about the time or shortly after the next debian stable will be released.
[1] https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5#LTS_releases
