Hi, today I wanted to upgrade my Debian/testing AMD64 system. My last update for Debian/testing was on Dec 12th 2020.
When I read about "Plasma 5.20 and KF 5.77 coming to unstable" I got excited as I know the kwayland-integration now supports the "middle-mouse-paste" feature. Thus, I have activated all my Debian/unstable sources.list again to get in taste of KDE/Plasma version 5.20. As said, my "base" system is Debian/testing where I have given packages from Debian/unstable and others an APT prio of 99. root# LC_ALL=C apt-get dist-upgrade -V -t unstable Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: ... user-manager (4:5.19.5-3) This seems to be the only KDE package which will be removed. My user-management is done via shell-commands, so I can live with that. More important is *kdeconnect* for me. Will it work within KDE/Plasma 5.20 and KF 5.77? root# LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy kdeconnect kdeconnect: Installed: 20.08.3-1 Candidate: 20.08.3-1 Version table: *** 20.08.3-1 500 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 99 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 99 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages So, I saw some packages still have version "20.08.3" not "20.12.x". Dunno, if there exist a 20.12.x version for kdeconnect. Is there any magic to just upgrade KDE/Plasma 5.20 and KF 5.77 packages within a Debian/testing system? root# dpkg -l | egrep 'task|plasma|standard|full' | grep kde | awk '/^ii/ {print $1 " " $2 " " $3}' | column -t ii kde-plasma-desktop 5:107 ii kde-standard 5:107 ii kdeplasma-addons-data 4:5.19.5-4 ii task-german-kde-desktop 3.61 Normally, I expect one of this commands shall do it (or in combination): root# apt-get install -s [ task-german-kde-desktop ] [ kde-standard ] [ kde-plasma-desktop ] -t unstable I remember I have un-installed *task-kde-desktop* due to depends-on *apper* as I do my package-management with apt and dpkg. root# LC_ALL=C apt-get dist-upgrade -V -t unstable ...looks good (but a lot of other stuff will be upgraded). Thanks for this Xmas present and answering my questions. Regards, - Sedat - [1] https://wiki.debian.org/KDE