libdrm requirement for Plasma 5.26

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 3:31 AM Vlad Zahorodnii <vlad.zahorodnii at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On 8/16/22 15:06, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 3:38 AM Vlad Zahorodnii <vlad.zahorodnii at kde.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> We would like to bump the required libdrm version in Plasma 5.26 to 2.4.112
> >>
> >> Are distros planning to ship Plasma 5.26 fine with this decision?
> >>
> >
> > This is probably *not* fine for us in Fedora. For one, this may
> > prevent us from shipping Plasma 5.26 to existing stable releases.
> > Additionally, it would *definitely* block us from shipping Plasma 5.26
> > to RHEL/CentOS users.
> >
> > We will have libdrm 2.4.112 in Fedora 37 and newer, but the removal of
> > libkms.so.1 means I don't know if we can ship it for Fedora 36 and
> > older. I don't know how that will play out for RHEL/CentOS either.
> >
> > I imagine that this would also be a problem for Plasma 5.26 on
> > openSUSE Leap too, though they don't officially ship that combination
> > outside of the openSUSE Argon spin.
>
> Can you clarify the position of Fedora?
>

Requiring libdrn 2.4.112 will keep us from shipping KDE Plasma 5.26 to
Fedora 36 and RHEL/CentOS 9.

As of right now, CentOS Stream 9 is at 2.4.111 for RHEL 9.1.

Fedora 36 is still at 2.4.110 and is unlikely to be upgraded.



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