Plasma 6 to unstable
Dear Release team,
we, the Qt/KDE team, have been preparing Plasma 6 incl. dependencies for
a few months now in experimental. It is our goal to ship trixie with
Plasma 6 instead of the EOL Plasma 5. We consider Plasma 6 to be stable
enough to ship in the next release.
In order to give us some time to handle potential bugs and problems, we
want to upload Plasma 6 to unstable as soon as possible. As some parts
of Plasma 6 still use Qt 5, we want to wait until the ongoing Qt 5.15.15
transition is complete before we do the upload.
Now, uploading Plasma 6 to unstable will not be completely painless as a
number of dependencies and reverse dependencies need to be taken care of
as well. Uploading Plasma 6 incl. its needed dependencies will cause
breakage in unstable for some packages. We have filed many bugs against
reverse dependencies informing them of the upcoming changes and we think
we have given those packages enough time to prepare for the change in
one way or another. It is possible that we have missed some packages,
but this whole transition several hundred packages some of which are
outside of this team's scope.
Technically, the Plasma 6 upload incorporates 10 transitions (https://
release.debian.org/transitions/index.html). However, a number of the
transitions involving Plasma 6 only involve KDE package (we will take
care of those anyway) and virtually all binNMUs would fail as packages
need to be actively ported from Plasma 5 to 6 or from Qt 5 to Qt 6.
We want to inform you about this upcoming upload and ask if you have any
objections. Thank you.
For the Qt/KDE team,
Patrick Franz & Aurélien COUDERC
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