Yeah I figured the changelog for 6.5 is quite massive indeed, but I wasn't sure this was an intended outcome for all minor plasma releases, or just kind of a one-time impressive version.
I was refering such releases as "minor" mainly in the semver style : major.minor.patch. Anyway, thanks again for all the work and explaining ! Kinds regards Le lundi 17 novembre 2025 à 23:57, Aurélien COUDERC <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi, > > Plasma 6.x releases are definitely *not* minor releases, check any of the > upstream release notes. > > They all introduce UI and workflow changes (and bugs) that are exactly what > we don't want in stable. > > Like Patrick said the Debian policy is only to backport specific commits for > specific fixes into stable. > > Happy hacking, > -- > Aurélien > > Le 17 novembre 2025 22:51:29 GMT+01:00, Quentin Aymard > <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> Thank you Patrick for clarifying. >> >> I thought point-releases of Debian were aimed at uploading newer versions of >> packages to Stable as long as the feature set remained consistent (no >> breaking change or major user experience modification). >> >> Does this mean I misunderstood the idea behind point-releases, or do Debian >> KDE team consider minor releases (eg 6.x) of Plasma to be "too much" of a >> jump forward, making them unsuitable for point-releases ? >> >> Thanks >> >> Le lundi 17 novembre 2025 à 19:53, Patrick Franz <[email protected]> a >> écrit : >> >>> Hi Quentin, >>> >>> Am Montag, 17. November 2025, 19:08:34 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit >>> >>> schrieb Quentin Aymard: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm still new to some parts of Debian's and KDE's lifecycle. I think I >>>> >>>> understand that : >>>> >>>> - hotfixes from upstream Plasma (6.3.x) should end up in or be >>>> >>>> backported to Debian stable ; >>>> >>>> - minor versions of Plasma (eg. 6.5) might at some point become >>>> >>>> available in Debian stable through upcoming point-releases (eg 13.3, >>>> >>>> 13.4, etc) in place of the current minor version (6.3.x) ; >>>> >>>> - as opposed to major versions (eg. something like Plasma 7.x far in >>>> >>>> the future) that should only be included in unstable then testing, as >>>> >>>> the "next-stable" channel, preparing the future of Debian 14. >>>> >>>> Am I correct ? >>> >>> Partially. Debian Stable will only get targeted fixes ("hotfixes") that >>> >>> each fix one particular issue. Since Plasma 6.3 is EOL, those will then >>> >>> have to be backported from newer Plasma releases. >>> >>> However, Debian Stable will stay on Plasma 6.3. It is not going to get >>> >>> Plasma 6.4, 6.5 or whatever. Updating Plasma to later releases would >>> >>> defy the point of "stable". >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Med vänliga hälsningar >>> >>> Patrick Franz
