Hi, 在 2026-02-07六的 22:26 +0100，Aurélien COUDERC写道： > Dear Boyuan, > > first let me thank you for your multiple contributions to the packaging of > KDE software, we have a huge number of packages to maintain in the team and > your help is really > appreciated ! > > Regarding your KF 6.23 uploads there are multiple issues that I want to raise > : > - We never mix framework (or plasma) x.y packages versions. That's entirely > not tested and to the best of my knowledge not supported by upstream. If your > going to upgrade > KF6 you have to upload the whole package set and ensure each package builds > with its build dependencies of the same version, from extra-cmake-modules up > to the leaves of the > KF6 package set. There are several helper tools in the pkg-kde-dev-scripts > repo to help with this. > - The tars made available in advance of official release are for packagers to > prepare the packages but (again to the best of my knowledge) are considered > not released > yet/private at this stage, and we are given access only under the condition > that we don't make them publicly available to our users. There may be > blockers and respins if the > packages before the official release (and that does happen regularly). So > don't upload these before their official releases. > > If you want to work on the KF6 or Plasma package set your welcome to do so > but don't do it without review from Patrick or myself for now. (I'm guessing > you needed a newer > version of prison for one of the KDE apps, right ? 🙂) > > It's true that our rules of how things should be done are not clearly written > somewhere so please coordinate with us on this list or on the #debian-qt-kde > IRC channel before > working on either KF or Plasma.
Thanks for the heads up. I was aware of the issue that KF6 packages shall be upgraded all together using stable channel (or otherwise it's not tested/supported), and that's why I was uploading rc version prison to Experimental now. Although not every developer makes use of Debian Experimental, I consider packages in Experimental to be like a sandbox so that we can test wild things out before targeting actual coordinated uploads. On the other hand, I do my homework to review upstream source code diffs before uploading, thanks to the source code availability on invent.kde.org. I was indeed not aware of pkg-kde-dev-scripts beforehand. Will look into it. Do you consider carrying backported patches on top of official releases to be a good option? Essentially the final outcome would be the same (e.g., v6.20/v6.22 + patches_we_need_in_upstream_git_trunk ~= v6.23), but we would be still using official tarballs. In the near future I am looking into the possibility for a bump in kf6-* packages from 6.20 to 6.22. I will see how that can be done in a proper way. Many thanks, Boyuan Yang
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