Hi!

On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 at 03:53, Aurélien COUDERC <li...@coucouf.fr> wrote:
>
> Dear Team,
>
> we currently have plasma 5.27.2 in bookworm, 5.27.3 in experimental and 
> Patrick and I will be updating experimental with new upstream bugfix versions 
> as they come by.
>
> I tried to get an unblock pre-approval for Frameworks 5.104 with #1033271 and 
> got a NACK but in my opinion not for the good reasons – difficulty for the 
> release team to review / unblock that number of packages.

I must agree with the RT here, this comes too late in the release cycle.

> I'm *not* trying again with Plasma. I don't have better arguments than for 
> Frameworks and I don't expect the same kind of inputs to get a different 
> output.
>
> So I'm reaching out to the team, maybe someone here can have a better idea on 
> how to proceed.
> Further Plasma 5.27.x releases have *loads* of fixes including important 
> crashers and screen management-related fixes which would be a shame not to 
> have in bookworm and would make the release strictly lower quality.
>
> I'm slowly going through Frameworks releases and backporting seemingly 
> important fixes on top of 5.103 but it feels like self-inflicted pain so 
> motivation is low.
> I'm *not* doing it for Plasma where the number of commits to backport would 
> be even higher than Frameworks, and probably more intricate too.

If I understand correctly this will be the last Qt5-based Plasma
release. If this is it, and as long as it does not require any
transition (rebuild existing binaries mostly) I would perhaps think of
an official backport.


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