The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Schaich Alonso]

On Fri, 19 May 2017 17:17:02 +0200
Hannes Hauswedell <h2 at fsfe.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> my main question is whether KDE on FreeBSD is affected by the infamous KDE 
> root vulnerability.
> 
> I don't want to complain or anything, and I know it's all volunteer work (I 
> did lot's testing back in the KDE4 porting efforts), but the current state of 
> KDE on FreeBSD seems to be rather desolate to me right now. I have stopped 
> reporting bugs years ago, because upstream wouldn't take them, because our 
> versions are so outdated. Besides the annoyances of bugs, there now seem to be 
> serious security problems and I wonder everyday whether KDE5 (or at least 
> KDE4's app packages) are around the corner, or whether I need to migrate all 
> my work away from KDE software as fast as possible.
> And yes, I have looked at area51, but it doesn't seems to contain packages for 
> any of the relevant apps (kmail, kate, kile, kdevelop...) and also I don't 
> want to risk mixing packages on my work computers.
> 
> Of course I would love to stick with the KDE apps, but it would be really 
> helpful right now to know if there is a plan/timeline for updates, or whether 
> this is completely unknown right now.
> 
> Thank you,
> Hannes
> 
> 

Hi

I can't tell you about the schedule of KF5 for FreeBSD. The KF5 library
components that are currenlty in the ports collection will likely see
an update soon, as the exp-run required for such a large commit
completed yesterday. Note that these components are just the libs and
not the desktop and front end applications themselves.

The "relevant" apps are all in area51's plasma5 branch. Although I
cannot say anything about kmail, the others "work" here. Which means
the desktop itself and kate work better than their KDE4 counterparts,
but kdevelop segfaults every 2 minutes on my installation :D

Make sure to switch to the plasma5 branch of area51 if you want/need
kde5, as the default branch is still on KDE-4.14 and Qt-4.8.

Alonso