Bug#894342: transition: kdepim

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 29/03/18 12:45, Sandro Knauß wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> KDE Pim 17.12 has updated ist API and ABI, that makes it nessasary to bump
> some ABIs. To track those ABI breakages, we updated the package names to
> 5abi1. So far most of the packages, that needs to be rebuild are inside
> KDE Pim itself so only following "external" packages are affected:
> 
> blogilo
> digikam
> kjots
> libkolab
> zanshin
> (calligra, calligraplan)
> 
> I build all rdepends and came to the conclusion:
> * kjots and zanshin build nicely with the new KDE Pim
> * blogilo has fallen out of KDE Pim can't be build anymore -> RM request
> * libkolab do not build anymore with KDE Pim 17.12 it is dead upstream
>   and not needed anymore for KDE Pim -> RM request [1]
> * digikam is not ready for KDE Pim 17.12 (see #893515)
>   the mantainer told me in private:
>   " My suggestion is: go ahead with the upload to unstable.  I should be
>   able to get digikam uploaded very shortly thereafter."
> * calligra and calligraplan depdend on the build pacakges, but the
>   featueres that use KDE Pim are disabled, so no need to build them
>   within the transition.
> 
> This transistion includes/replaces following auto detected transitions:
> auto-akonadi-calendar
> auto-akonadi
> auto-kcalcore
> auto-kdav
> auto-kmime
> auto-kpimtextedit
> auto-libkf5calendarsupport
> auto-libkf5gravatar
> auto-libkf5incidenceeditor
> auto-libkf5mailcommon
> auto-libkf5pimcommon
> 
> These 11 transistions share nearly all rdepdens, that's why I think it is
> easier to track it in only one transistion and not within 11. But if
> you belive it is easier to have saperate ones, please tell me. I look at
> all, and all look correcty so far, but IMO it is not easy keep an
> overview.
> 
> After KDE Frameworks 5.44 entered testing successfully, there is no
> blocker anymore for starting this transition. Please tell me
> additionally, if I need to request the RMs in advanced or while the
> transition is going on.

Go ahead.

You can request the RMs at any point, via reportbug ftp.debian.org. For libkolab
you probably want to wait until you have uploaded kdepim without a dependency on
libkolab.

Emilio