Hi, Le mercredi 14 août 2024, 12:38:02 CEST Sedat Dilek a écrit : > Hi Aurelien and Patrick, > > so people are very excited about having KDE Plasma version 6.1.3 and > reporting problems. > > I just wanted to ask what are the plans for KDE Apps (Gears) upgrade > to version 24.05.2 or newer?
We still don’t give ETAs however many times you ask. :) The priority is to get kf6 into trixie which shouldn’t be far away, then Plasma 6 and probably Qt6.7 before Plasma. > Here I have a mixture: > > root@iniza:~/packages/KDE# LC_ALL=C wc -l KG-24-05-2.20240814 > KG-23-0x-x.20240814 KG-22-12-3.20240814 > 28 KG-24-05-2.20240814 > 17 KG-23-0x-x.20240814 > 134 KG-22-12-3.20240814 > 179 total Yes and that’s fine. KDE apps are release together but they are completely independent from each other (with some exceptions). We’ve already released Debian with mixed versions several times. Also some apps get released because they are part of the KDE Gear set, but don’t have a single line of code changed between versions. So having all KDE apps to the exact latest upstream version is more OCD than something we’re aiming for. […] > For kmail2 I guess it will be required to be adapted to new versions > of kdepim and akonadi stuff. > kmail can send emails - that's my use-case. The PIM stack is big and has a lot of inter-dependencies, plus some things to take care of for libraries ABI compatibility where upstream is not 100% clean so it’s a big piece. Also many of its packages will need to go through NEW because the libraries had a soname bump. > Maybe you can tell what problems you faced? There are many reasons and we don’t keep a formal list. If you (or anyone else !) is interested in helping, please go through some Debian packaging introduction, setup an environment where you can build packages, and join us on #debian-qt-kde on OFCT. We’re usually friendly and KDE Gear is a good starting point because they are leaf packages without inter-dependencies. > I know you are mostly two maintainers doing the hard work. Scarlett and Jesse have done most of the work for 24.05 apps so far, so let’s thank them ! Happy hacking, -- Aurélien
