Re: KDE/Plasma 6.5.0 upgrade experiences

[Andy Wood <ayup.gromit@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, 25 October 2025 10:44 Patrick Franz wrote:
> Hi all,
> this is a warning to all users of forky/testing:
> Do not upgrade any Plasma packages to 6.5.0 yet!
> The first Plasma packages have migrated to testing, but the bulk will
> take another couple of days. If you do the usual upgrade, you will end
> up mixing Plasma 6.3 and 6.5 which might lead to weird and unwanted
> behaviour. Unfortunately, we cannot control exactly when each package
> will migrate to testing. So please wait some days, it will sort itself
> out.
> This is to prevent bugs like these:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1118770

If you read this warning from Patrick 5 minutes too late (I did), the 
following fixed things for me today (25 October) in forky:

debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 libplasma6 6.3.5-1
debsnap -d . --binary -a all libplasmaactivities-data 6.3.4-2
debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 libplasmaactivitiesstats1 6.3.4-1
debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 libplasmaquick6 6.3.5-1
debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 qml6-module-org-kde-activities 6.3.4-2
debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 plasma-desktoptheme 6.3.5-1
debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 plasma-activities-bin 6.3.4-2
sudo dpkg -i libplasma6_6.3.5-1_amd64.deb \
             libplasmaactivities-data_6.3.4-2_all.deb \
             libplasmaactivitiesstats1_6.3.4-1_amd64.deb \
             libplasmaquick6_6.3.5-1_amd64.deb \
             qml6-module-org-kde-activities_6.3.4-2_amd64.deb \
             plasma-desktoptheme_6.3.5-1_amd64.deb \
             plasma-activities-bin_6.3.4-2_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get remove libplasmaactivities7

Andy.