drkonqi and outdated software

[Martin Steigerwald]

Greetings,

Justin Zobel - 19.11.25, 12:59:31 CET:
> On 19 November 2025 9:46:09 pm ACDT, Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> 
> wrote:
> >On 2025-11-19, Justin Zobel <justin at 1707.io> wrote:
> >> crashed but it is no longer supported and recommend updating if
> >> possible.
> >Please don't.
>
> Care to elaborate on why? It would be the truth.

It would send a certain message to distributions with longer term 
stability guarantees: We don't care if our software crashes in case we 
consider it outdated.

While I totally get that it would be unreasonable to expect any kind of 
support for bugs in the behavior of a program unless it makes the program 
in question unusable and of course implementing new features a crash is 
something different I think. If it only happens in certain rare 
circumstances and is difficult to fix it might still be unreasonable to 
expect any kind of support. But declining any support or help to 
distributions regarding *any* crashes in older software raises the 
question whether you like to support such traditional distributions at all 
anymore.

I do not have an easy solution.

And maybe being clear about it at least is being clear about it.

However I consider Plasma and KDE applications will continue to have a 
quite sizable number of running installations on "traditional" 
distributions like Debian or Devuan and whatever is the current set of 
corresponding RPM based distributions like Rocky Linux and Alma Linux as 
well as stable distributions with other packaging formats. Also you have 
FreeBSD. I believe distributions like KDE Neon or KDE Linux are not for 
everyone.

I see a shared responsibility here. Not just upstream. But also not just 
the distributions. Cause just sending: "We don't care"? Not sure whether 
that is a beneficial approach considering the total of the installation 
base of KDE based software.

Best,
-- 
Martin