kossebau added a comment.
It's actually an approach to be preferred in such cases, as it moves some of the work to be done at creating KF6 and porting to its new API for users of KF to now and the time span until KF6, keeping the unavoidable hurdle at the actual KF5->KF6 change as small as possible. REPOSITORY R241 KIO REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D24999 To: meven, #frameworks, dfaure Cc: kossebau, apol, kde-frameworks-devel, LeGast00n, GB_2, michaelh, ngraham, bruns