KDE Gears 22.04 and Plasma 5.24.5 for Debian
I have updated my OBS builds to contain the new KDE Gears 22.04 as well as the last point release of KDE Plasma 5.24.5.
As usual, the packages are provided via my OBS builds. If you have used my packages till now, then you only need to change the apps2112 line to read apps2204. To give full details, I repeat (and update) instructions for all here: First of all, you need to add my OBS key say in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/obs-npreining.asc and add a file /etc/apt/sources.lists.d/obs-npreining-kde.list, containing the following lines, replacing the DISTRIBUTION part with one of Debian_11 (for Bullseye), Debian_Testing, or Debian_Unstable:
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/other-deps/DISTRIBUTION/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/frameworks/DISTRIBUTION/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/plasma524/DISTRIBUTION/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/apps2204/DISTRIBUTION/ ./
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/other/DISTRIBUTION/ ./
Some programs in the other group have been recompiled against the Gears 22.04 libraries.
Enjoy!
PS: Considering that I don’t have a user-facing Debian computer anymore, all these packages are only tested by third parties and not by myself. Be aware!
PPS: Funny to read the Debian Social Contract, Point 4. Our priorities are our users and free software, obviously I care a lot about my users.
Big thanks again Norbert!!!! I updated my sources.list per your instructions and upgraded to Apps 2204. Everything looks great and is working.
On the DFSG: is it envie and jealousy what is causing the Debian community behaviour?
Thank you, Norbert! Unfortunately some packages can’t be upgraded. Apt wants to remove
digikam digikam-private-libs kmymoney libkf5alarmcalendar5abi1 libkpmcore11 showfoto
Sorry I cannot test myself, but digikam etc should be recompiled against Gears 2204 and be installable. Which distribution (testing, stable, Sid) are you using?
In my setup Digikam was installed smoothly. I think you need to fiddle with apt. Sometimes I encounter a situation like you describe, in which case I let it uninstall packages, and immediately after I install them again.
OK. I have come across the issue by playing a little bit with pinning (give a higher priority to your repo). After that apt has made upgrade without any problems. Thank you!
I’m in bullseye and in the same situation as you. Can you share how you pinned the repository. Thanks!
There is an issue with the Debian 11 dependencies. Your polkit-kde-agent-1 has polkitd as a dependency, but that is not available in bullseye, just in testing and unstable. The standard Debian Bullseye polkit-kde-agent-1 pulls in policykit-1 instead. It appears Debian transitioned to the polkitd package for testing and unstable, but not for Bullseye.
Thanks, good finding, I’ll look into it ASAP
Should be fixed with 5.24.5-1~np2
All fixed now. Thanks!
Hi,
a huge thank you for doing this even without using it yourself!
Two Problems on my side:
1. polkit-kde-agent-1 isnt updated:
$ sudo apt install polkit-kde-agent-1
polkit-kde-agent-1 : Hängt ab von: polkitd ist aber nicht installierbar
$ apt depends polkit-kde-agent-1=4:5.24.5-1~np1
polkit-kde-agent-1
Hängt ab von:
$ apt depends polkit-kde-agent-1=4:5.24.4-1~np1
polkit-kde-agent-1
Hängt ab von: policykit-1
2. cantor gets removed:
$ sudo apt install cantor
libcantorlibs28 : Beschädigt: cantor (< 4:22.04.0-2~) aber 4:22.04.0-1~np1 soll installiert werden
$ apt depends libcantorlibs28=4:22.04.0-1~np1
Beschädigt: cantor (<< 4:22.04.0-2~)
Thanks for the report, will check ASAP
polkit should be fixed with 5.24.5-1~np2
cantor should be fixed with 4:22.04.0-1~np2
Thanks for the report.
polkit is fixed, the cantor problem seems to still exist?!
$ sudo apt install cantor libcantorlibs28
libcantorlibs28 : Beschädigt: cantor (< 4:22.04.0-2~)
Both packages are version 4:22.04.0-1~np2! Maybe some kind of typo in the Depends/Replaces/Breaks?
Thanks again!
Ha! You are right, stupid error of mine. There are incorrect replace/breaks. I sent of ~np3, should be fixed by that. Thanks for the feedback!
Yes, everthing works perfectly now, thanks.
Thank you. The upgrade was a breeze. 🙏🏼
Thanks Norbert, update went swimmingly fine on Siduction. 🙂
We miss ya buddy.
Thanks for the kde-apps update to version 22.04.
What happended to k3b and konqueror (and their libs)?
root# dpkg -l | grep ’21\.12\.3′ | awk ‘{print $2}’ | sort
k3b
k3b-data
k3b-i18n
konq-plugins
konqueror
libk3b7:amd64
libk3b7-extracodecs:amd64
libkf5alarmcalendar-data
libkf5konq6:amd64
libkf5alarmcalendar5abi1:amd64 package was removed on upgrade.
Can you clarify?
Those two packages have non-trivial changes/build failures and I need to look into them when I have more time.
Hello,
What has happened to korgac (korganizer reminder client)? It is missing in korganizer 4:22.04.0-1~np1 package.
Sorry no idea, I haven’t changed anything in the packaging besides the update to the new upstream version.
Aha. They have remove it. “Remove korgac and use the new shared reminder daemon instead”
Thanks for the updates!
Calamares also needs a fix for bullseye. I backported it from unstable for my setup and it is installable now.
Can you share that?
sorry, I meant calamares is uninstallable due to missing dependencies. Simple backport from unstable fixed that.
Synced from Debian, rebuild in process, should be ready soonish
Thanks, I see it 🙂
Hi!
I tried to install Qt 5.15.3 packages from Debian experimental, but it seems to conflict with a bunch of 22.04.0 applications from your repo which it wants to remove in such scenario. Do they have some hard dependency on Qt 5.15.2?
Example:
accountwizard akonadi-server akregator ark bluedevil breeze dolphin dragonplayer gwenview …
Yes, these packages use Qt internals and thus cannot be used with different versions. This is the same with the packages distributed within Debian itself. If you want to test a new Qt version, you need to rebuild these packages yourself.
Looks like KDE apps version 22.04.1 from Norbert’s OBS Git now ships konqueror and k3b.
Both apps start here.
No version bump has:
1. libkf5alarmcalendar5abi1:amd64
2. libkf5alarmcalendar-data
Yes, those two packages have disappeared.
Hi Norbert, thanks for including KDE Frameworks 5.94.0!
Norbert, do your packages need a rebuild against OpenSSL-v3?
Note: Debian/unstable is in a transition period (see [1]).
[1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-openssl.html
Probably at some point I need to recompile them. I hope that goes all without code changes, because otherwise it will be a huge pain to keep stable supported.
Unsure, if this is a way to correctly determine the build-deps to libssl-dev:
root# LC_ALL=C apt-rdepends –reverse libssl-dev | egrep -i ‘kde|kf5|qt’ | grep ‘Reverse Depends:’ | sort
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
Reverse Depends: libkf5kdelibs4support-dev (5.93.0-1)
Reverse Depends: libpqtypes-dev (1.5.1-7)
Reverse Depends: libvtk6-qt-dev (= 6.3.0+dfsg2-8.1+b1)
Reverse Depends: libvtk7-qt-dev (= 7.1.1+dfsg2-10.1+b1)
Reverse Depends: libvtk9-qt-dev (= 9.1.0+really9.1.0+dfsg2-3+b3)
Well, that looks not too bad. And the code uses just `libssl-dev` for B-D, so I just need to kick of a rebuild in due time, probably not immediately.
Best is to wait the transition to openssl-v3 is done.
You happen to know how to retrieve the information?
( I plan to update my selfmade LLVM toolchain and “be patient” might be a good strategy. )