Re: KDE/Plasma 6.5.0 upgrade experiences
Hi
Le 9 novembre 2025 00:54:01 GMT+01:00, Shmerl <shtetldik+shmerl@gmail.com> a écrit :
>On Sat, 01 Nov 2025 22:06:45 +0100 Hefee wrote:
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>*> Normally one would use virtual packages like plasma-abi-6.5 and all packages
>> would depend on that, that would solve this issue. But this virtual package
>> would need a real packages that provides this virtual package. But there is
>> not this "central package" for plasma that would be natural to ship this
>> virtual package. Okay when writing this I'm thinking, well why not create a
>> dummy plasma package without any content that simply provides the virtual
>> package without any file content. Did we already tried this one?*
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>If that works, then sure! I always assumed that meta packages are intended to
>solve these kind of problem, but if you think virtual package is a
>better approach,
>then why not.
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>This issue is really hindering newcomers to Debian especially, and
>adds arguments to those
>who don't recommend Debian testing to new users. Fixing it would
>really help making
>Debian testing / KDE more user friendly.
I don't buy into this particular argument since using testing will always require some level of technical knowledge at some point.
But I do agree it's an issue we need to fix for people currently using testing. We cannot let everyone break their desktop just out of inattention.
I have a WIP solution, that I *may* land for 6.6, if you're interested in the implementation you can have a look at :
- <https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/plasma-version#>
- <https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/pkg-kde-tools/-/commit/fa730bf00427579d953b79cd95a1a2c5fe0a8f95>
- <https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/breeze-grub/-/commit/4501b5cb0e4e7501693cd977410e9cf7d4963712>
Happy hacking,
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Aurélien
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