Collection of packaging notes

[Jonathan Riddell]

Thanks for your e-mail.  It covers more than Frameworks so I'm including
release-team@ too.

One quick question, is naming non-frameworks libKF6foo really a problem we
need to fix?  Given all the other issues...

Jonathan


On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 10:55, Christophe Marin <christophe at krop.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> With various alpha coming out soon, here are the notes added to my
> packages
> when I started packaging snapshots and still present.
>
> I'm well aware that some of these modules won't be present in the first
> releases.
>
> First, the most annoying issue:
> Plasma still didn't bump all their libraries soname. That's a major
> annoyance
> for packagers.
>
> - Conflicting files (not mentioned in the other thread)
> kcm_trash.desktop is installed by both kio (kf5) and kio-extras (kf6)
>
> - Conflicting translation catalog names:
> plasma-integration (plasmaintegration5)
> kuserfeedback
>
> - Misnamed libraries:
> kmail-account-wizard (liblibaccountwizard.so)
> ktextaddons (liblibvoskspeechtotext.so)
>
> - Non frameworks modules installing libKF*.so
> ktextaddons (various libraries)
> konqueror (libKF6Konq.so)
> libksane (libKF5Sane5.so)
> kweathercore (libKF6KWeatherCore.so)
> libktorrent (libKF5Torrent.so)
> libkexiv2 (libKF6KExiv2.so)
> libkdcraw (libKF6KDcraw.so)
> baloo-widgets (libKF6BalooWidgets.so)
> kmoretools (libKF6MoreTools.so)
> libkscreen (libKF6Screen.so, libKF6ScreenDpms.so)
>
> - Wrong install location for knewstuff files:
> khangman
> kturtle
>
> - Wrong install location for CMake files:
> qqc2-breeze-style (still uses KF5QQC2BreezeStyle)
>
> - old install location:
> kalgebra (/usr/share/katepart5. Note: syntax-highlighting won't ignore the
> file, but it's not the default location)
> ksystemlog (/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ksystemlog)
>
> - Modules still using QQC1:
> kdeplasma-addons (applets/fifteenPuzzle)
>
> - build dependency issues:
> plasma5support (links and requires QtGui but doesn't search for it at
> build
> time)
> kinfocenter (requires kpackage at build time but doesn't seem to need it)
>
>
> Christophe
>
>
>
>
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