A happy new year! Am Samstag, 31. Dezember 2016, 18:28:06 CET schrieb Sandro Knauß: > > Maxy is currently uploading Plasma 5.8.5 which contains bugfixes and > > translation updates. > > maxy uploads plasma 5.8.5 to experimental. So normally it should not hit > users.
Hmmm, I missed that, but that may explain why I didn´t see it yet. > > As a major upgrade that I would like to see KDEPIM 16.08 (or 16.12) is > > still missing. But Qt webengine packages, a prerequisite of KDEPIM > > packages, are available meanwhile (libqt5webengine5). > > Unfortunatelly this won't happen. The packaging of QtWebEngine took to > long. We have already 10day migration to testing and KDEPIM 16.08 and 16.12 > have several splits of existing repositories (aka new packages appear with > 16.08 and 16.12), so things need to go through the NEW queue. And we have > the upcoming deadline 5th Jan for new packages to enter testing. Well if > you calculate, that means the last day to upload new packages to sid, to > enter testing in time would have been the 25th December. Looking at the > calendar tells me we are after the 25th Dec :( > > Well the only opportunity to get KDEPIM 16.08/16.12 to next Debian stable > would be to start talking to the release team and get a exception. But > neither maxy nor me want to start this discussion, because of lack of time. > Just a sidenote: As far as I understood maxy, he has already build KDEPIM > 16.08/16.12. I understand. Well as far as I gathered on IRC channel packaging Qt Webengine is quite challenge. Thanks for putting up with it. KDEPIM 16.04 works okayish for me and well as I will follow Debian Sid anyway, for me it doesn´t matter all that much. Ciao, -- Martin
