Yeah Plasma doesn't follow semantic versioning, the left-most part is the Qt version it's based on, the middle number more of a major version, and the right-most one something between minor and patch in semver terms.
This is not specific to 6.5 if you look at any 6.x they have similar levels of churn. Happy hacking, -- Aurélien Le 18 novembre 2025 00:01:58 GMT+01:00, Quentin Aymard <[email protected]> a écrit : >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
