KDE 6 MegaRelease further dependencies

[Neal Gompa]

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 1:56 PM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
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> Me and Justin suggested a Matrix room to coordinate this but nobody seemed interested, let me know if you'd like one.
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I don't have anything against a Matrix room. It seems like a good idea.

> I'd like to make a Todo board of this somehow, what's the best way to do that?
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> Paul made one for Promo https://phabricator.kde.org/T16977
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> Further dependencies that Justin pointed me to from Fedora chat https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/383#comment-878191
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> = xdg-utils
> External project part of Freedesktop
> Latest release 2018 by
> Current development happening by e.g. Meven and Harald for KF6 support https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/
> Not much activity on the mailing list called Portland (gosh I think I remember that name being brought up) https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/portland/
> I don't know who has authority to make a release
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> = libaccounts-qt
> External project
> https://gitlab.com/accounts-sso/libaccounts-qt/
> Last release 4 years ago
> Git master builds for both Qt 5 and 6 thanks to Nico
> No activity on the mailing list, it's not clear who can make a release of this https://groups.google.com/g/accounts-sso-devel
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> = gpgme
> This is fine, current release builds for Qt 5 and 6, just remind distros to package newest version
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> = qca
> Builds for Qt 5 and 6 for the last couple of releases, just remind distros to package newest version
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> = packagekit-qt
> Current release builds for Qt 5 and 6, just remind distros to package newest version
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> = grantlee
> This is now KTextTemplate and part of Frameworks so just release note that
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> = signond
> This seems to build for Qt 5 and 6 with no modifications so just release note for distos to package it
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> = signon-ui
> I have no idea what's going on here, there were releases with ubunntu in the version number in 2015 of something called "signon-ui"
> https://gitlab.com/accounts-sso/signon-ui/-/tags
> Now the project is called "signon-ui-qt" in gitlab at least and Nico is going work on it so maybe it needs a release? We built it for Qt 5 in neon and nobody has complained thus far.
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> = signon-plugin-oauth2
> Another one where it's not clear how releases are managed if at all
> https://gitlab.com/accounts-sso/signon-plugin-oauth2/-/tags
> Release 2 years ago uses Qt 5
> No development since then, does it need work for Qt 6?
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> = appstream
> Not to be confused with the Amazon product of the same name or indeed "upstream", this is an external project where Plasma needs 1.0 which isn't released yet. Hopefully it'll be released in time for our final one in the mean time tell distros to use git https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
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> = kweathercore
> 0.7 released in sep 2022 should build against Qt 6, tell distros to update their packages
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> = libquotient
> https://github.com/quotient-im/libQuotient/tags
> Current release from september builds for both Qt 5 and 6, just remind distros to update packaging.
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> = kdsoap6
> External project, Latest release builds with Qt 5 and 6 tell distros to package it
> https://github.com/KDAB/KDSoap/releases
> kio-extras needs it so needs a Qt 5 build too for KF5 apps
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> = kdsoap-ws-discovery-client
> KDE project part of release service, https://invent.kde.org/libraries/kdsoap-ws-discovery-client
> New release will build with Qt 5 and 6
> kio-extras needs it so needs a Qt 5 build as well as Qt 6 for KF5 apps
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> = kio-extras
> part of kde gear
> KF5 apps need Qt 5 build as well as Qt 6 although there's lots of clashing files
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> = qcoro
> https://github.com/danvratil/qcoro
> Latest release can build for Qt 5 and 6, tell distros to package it for both
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> = futuresql
> KDE library https://invent.kde.org/libraries/futuresql
> Latest release from May builds both Qt 5 and 6, tell distros to do both
> https://download.kde.org/stable/futuresql/
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> = kquickimageeditor
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/kquickimageeditor.git
> A qml module needed for koko, skanpage, and neochat
> Last release was in October 2021 by Carl
> Master supports Qt 6, new release needed
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> = qtkeychain
> External project used by tokodon, plasmatube, neochat, kmail, kasts and libquotient
> https://github.com/frankosterfeld/qtkeychain/releases
> Releases since May have Qt 6 support, tell distros to package for both Qt 5 and 6 (or drop the Qt 5 depends)
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> = pulseaudio-qt
> https://invent.kde.org/libraries/pulseaudio-qt.git
> KDE library used by KDE connect
> Last release 2021 by Nicolas Fella
> master supports Qt 5 and 6 since last year
> KDE connect looks like it also builds for Qt5 and 6 so this could do with a new release pronto
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> = wayland-protocols
> Fedora said this needed an update, I'm not sure that it does
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> = kirigami-addons
> Not on Fedora's list
> various QML modules used by various things
> Carl released this last September
> He said on matrix just now he'll make a new release
> Builds for Qt 5 and 6, tell distros to package for Qt 6
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Thanks for the list!


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