Re: Simulated upgrade to KDE/Plasma (KP) 5.21.0/experimental

[Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 9:14 PM Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > An upgraded kwin version 4:5.21.0-1 is not available.
>
> Yes, kdecorations, kwin, plasma-discover need NEW processing.
>
> If you are in hurry, get the git repo, checkout experimental branch of
> the three, run
>         uscan --rename --download-current-version
>         dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot -S -d
> and then build the binary package in your favorite way.
>

After the above 2 steps (before: download tarball from
download.kde.org and symlink to ...orig.tar.xz):

dileks@iniza:~/src/kdecoration/git$ LC_ALL=C debuild
...
 debian/rules binary
dh binary --with kf5,pkgkde_symbolshelper --buildsystem kf5 --without
build_stamp
  dh_update_autotools_config -O--buildsystem=kf5
  dh_autoreconf -O--buildsystem=kf5
  dh_auto_configure --buildsystem=kf5 -O--buildsystem=kf5
       cd obj-x86_64-linux-gnu && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var -DCMAKE
_EXPORT_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY=ON
-DCMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY=ON
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_RUNSTATEDIR=/run
-DCMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_ALL_DEPENDENCY=ON "-GUnix Makefiles" -
DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debian -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc
-DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON ..
CMake Error: The source directory "/home/dileks/src/kdecoration/git"
does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
dh_auto_configure: error: cd obj-x86_64-linux-gnu && cmake
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTA
TEDIR=/var -DCMAKE_EXPORT_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY=ON
-DCMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY=ON
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_RUNSTATEDIR=/run
-DCMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_ALL_DEPENDENCY=ON "-
GUnix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debian
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT
_SYS_PATHS=ON .. returned exit code 1
make: *** [debian/rules:9: binary] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1182:
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui failed

YES, there is no CMakeLists.txt.

How do I generate it?

- Sedat -