Hi Le 9 novembre 2025 00:54:01 GMT+01:00, Shmerl <[email protected]> a écrit : >On Sat, 01 Nov 2025 22:06:45 +0100 Hefee wrote: > > > >*> Normally one would use virtual packages like plasma-abi-6.5 and all packages >> would depend on that, that would solve this issue. But this virtual package >> would need a real packages that provides this virtual package. But there is >> not this "central package" for plasma that would be natural to ship this >> virtual package. Okay when writing this I'm thinking, well why not create a >> dummy plasma package without any content that simply provides the virtual >> package without any file content. Did we already tried this one?* > >If that works, then sure! I always assumed that meta packages are intended to >solve these kind of problem, but if you think virtual package is a >better approach, >then why not. > >This issue is really hindering newcomers to Debian especially, and >adds arguments to those >who don't recommend Debian testing to new users. Fixing it would >really help making >Debian testing / KDE more user friendly.
I don't buy into this particular argument since using testing will always require some level of technical knowledge at some point. But I do agree it's an issue we need to fix for people currently using testing. We cannot let everyone break their desktop just out of inattention. I have a WIP solution, that I *may* land for 6.6, if you're interested in the implementation you can have a look at : - <https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/plasma-version#> - <https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/pkg-kde-tools/-/commit/fa730bf00427579d953b79cd95a1a2c5fe0a8f95> - <https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/breeze-grub/-/commit/4501b5cb0e4e7501693cd977410e9cf7d4963712> Happy hacking, -- Aurélien
