KDE Gear 24.12.0 packages available for packagers

[Tobias Leupold]

Hi all,

E-Mail von Heiko Becker vom Freitag, 6. Dezember 2024, 13:50:51 MEZ:
> On Friday, 6 December 2024 12:08:46 CET, Christophe Marin wrote:
> > Slightly related to this release, packagers need to know what to do with 
> > packages depending on Qt 5 and marble:
> >
> > - kgeotag (1.6.0 release only supports KF5/Qt5)
> > - kphotoalbum (5.13 release  only supports KF5/Qt5, but the 
> > marble dependency 
> > is optional)

Both KGeoTag and KPhotoAlbum's KF6/Qt6 ports are ready to go, cf. git master. 
I'll tag a new release each as soon as Qt 6 marble is released (KGeoTag 1.7.0 
and KPhotoAlbum 6.0.0).

Cheers, Tobias

> > - kexi (no release for the past 5 years)
> 
> Just to add some piece of information here, because one could get the 
> impression that Marble is a hard dependency of kexi. Actually it's optional 
> as well. And while the current release searches for (Kexi)Marble, the 
> respective subdir is commented out (and still is in git master), so I'd say 
> it doesn't depend on marble at all the moment.
> 
> > - kreport (no release for the past 5 years)
> 
> It's an optional dependency there, too.
> 
> > I'm not expecting users will notice if we drop kexi and kreport, but 
having 
> > solutions for the other ones before the 24.12 release would be nice.
> 
> Seems we're not particular good at foreseeing such things...
> Six days isn't much time, but I added Tobias in CC to hear if a soonish 
> release of a Qt6-based kgeotag may be realistic.
> 
> Regards,
> Heiko