Upgrade note for kscreenlocker to Plasma 5.10

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> Given that my personal recommendation is to do offline updates.
>>
>
> (Looping in Aleix Pol from Plasma Discover, Nicolas Lecureuil from
> Mageia KDE, and Angelo Naselli from manatools )
>
> From the Mageia point of view, we do not currently officially support
> an offline upgrade mechanism. We did add support for DNF to Mageia 6,
> which means that Mageia 6 to 7 could be an offline upgrade through dnf
> system-upgrade from the terminal. Our new dnfdragora tool (a
> desktop-agnostic DNF frontend) does not yet support offline updates,
> though it could be something we would do in the future.
>
> GNOME supports this in their GNOME Software, and encourages offline
> upgrades whenever possible. If you'd like to push this recommendation,
> we need it in the KDE PackageKit frontend, but neither of KDE's
> PackageKit frontends (Apper and Discover) support offline upgrades.
>
> At this point in time, unless we tell people to upgrade via the CLI
> (and only from Mageia 6 to Mageia 7), there's no way we can recommend
> this. I honestly do not see us from Mageia ever doing that. So if
> you'd like to push for offline updates, then that means that the
> PackageKit frontends need to support it.

Hi Neal,
I know offline upgrades are something requested, it's on my to-do list
but not as hi as you'd possibly want. If somebody has some time to
work on it I'll be happy to review the work done, otherwise I can just
say it will eventually get done.

Aleix