KDE and packageurl

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Mar 4 16:46:10 GMT 2026


Hello,

At FOSDEM I talked with someone that is working on packageurl and he suggested 
it would be nice if KDE adopted it.

What is package url?

"PURL introduces a standardized URL-based syntax that uniquely identifies 
software packages"

Example:
  pkg:deb/debian/curl at 7.50.3-1?arch=i386&distro=jessie

https://packageurl.org/
https://tc54.org/purl/
https://github.com/package-url/purl-spec/blob/main/README.md

I guess one should say something like
  pkg:kde/okukar at 25.12.2?qualifiers

And then for qualifiers we would have to think what to do, do we care only 
about tarballs? Or do we want to include all the binary packages we support? I 
guess if it has to be "unique" it should include the binary packages too.

Do we see any value in adopting it?

Cheers,
  Albert




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