[dolphin] [Bug 428529] dolphin crashes upon right-click if dolphin-plugins not same version

[José Manuel Santamaría Lema]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428529

José Manuel Santamaría Lema <panfaust at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |panfaust at gmail.com
             Status|REPORTED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |DOWNSTREAM

--- Comment #1 from José Manuel Santamaría Lema <panfaust at gmail.com> ---
Hi,

I'm going to mark this issue as resolved/downstream because this is just an
issue with the debian packaging, and that can be fixed for real only in the
debian packaging.

Why? Let's say KDE releases a newer version KDE Applications, which would
provide both newer dolphin and dolphin-plugins. Now, supose the debian
"experts" update the new dolphin but not the new dolphin-plugins in sid, or
that they package it improperly in a way that the newer version of dolphin
migrates from sid to testing, while testing still has the older dolphin-plugins
(which is exactly what they did). Can this packaging situation be fixed in the
dolphin-plugins CMakeLists.txt for example? Well, the way I see it, no, because
there isn't any way to prevent a distribution from providing a new version of
dolphin along with an old version of dolphin plugins.

Even if we set a minimum version for DolphinVcs here:
https://invent.kde.org/sdk/dolphin-plugins/-/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt
like I said above, that's not going to stop a distribution from providing a
modern dolphin along with an old dolphin-plugins, which is what caused your
problem.

P.S. With all due respect: I have been doing *.deb kde packaging over the last
10 years, and maybe the debian "experts" should automate their packaging (like
we did in other distributions such as Kubuntu or KDE Neon) and take better care
of sid -> testing migrations so they don't end up having this random outdated
mix of packages.

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