Re: Keep wiki for Plasma 6 / Qt 6 upgrade information in sync

[Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com>]

Hi all,

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:33:44 +0100
Hefee <hefee@debian.org> wrote:

> it is great to see a lot useful information shared via this mailing
> list. To find all the quirks in upgrading to Plasma 6 / Qt 6.
> 
> It would be great if all those knowledge is not only bound to this
> ml. Let's make sure that the wiki will be our primary knowledge pool
> regarding the quirks:
> 
>   https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206
> 

Sharing my little "worry story" -- I used "apt upgrade" on testing (I
never use full-upgrade) and it installed many packages, but apparently
left many missing. But after that, "aptitude safe-upgrade" put things
in order.

Between the two upgrade commands, I got to a desktop with no shell,
where even logging out doesn't work properly (although I did manage to
run some programs by adding panels manually). I had to change to XFCE in
order to run aptitude and fix it, as even konsole wasn't working.

I usually use aptitude for upgrades, but in big transitions like this
it has a tendency to choke, and then I resort to apt.

I'm not sure if there's a general lesson in this that's fit for the
Wiki. Maybe a list of packages to check for ("if your upgrade doesn't
have x,y, and z then it is incomplete").

Anyway, all seems well now.

(I have signal-desktop installed from outside Debian, and it needed a
manual quirk as well; does that fit there?)

Thanks to packagers and developers for all their work, and thanks to
members of this list for all the info,

	Shai.