Re: KDE (plasma6) versions 6.3.X should be abonadoned in trixie but 6.4.X added
Le 05/08/2025 à 13:20, Hans a écrit :
Dear list,
due to some issue on my notebook with debian/trixe, I contacted the KDE
developers.
They told me, that there will be no more work on plasma6 version 6.3.X, as all
work is now at version 6.4.X.
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I will be hapy to read your sight of this.
Hello,
Plasma (KDE) is based on the KDE framework, itself based on Qt.
Nowadays, upstream support for Qt releases are:
- 1 year for normal releases
- 5 years for LTS releases and paying customers
and the agreement between QT Group and KDE only provides the latter
access to normal releases, it seems.
So, unless tomorrow the Debian project chose to consider the whole KDE
project as it considers Chromium (a project evolving faster than Debian
Stable but considered nonetheless relevant for Stable inclusion, which
the needs an adequate Debian manpower), and I doubt it, or the KDE team
moves to another GUI toolkit that is free and have a longer period of
support than Qt...
https://www.qt.io/blog/ensuring-product-longevity-with-qt-long-term-support
https://www.qt.io/faq/qt-open-source-licensing
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