KDE Gear 24.12.0 packages available for packagers

Tobias Leupold tl at stonemx.de
Fri Dec 6 12:58:01 GMT 2024


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)
> > - 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

PS: Maybe also important: The next KGeoTag release will be buildable both 
against Qt6/KF6 as well as Qt5/KF5, whereas the next KPA release will be Qt6/
KF6-only.




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