kf5 5.7 utopic backports saga

[Loïc Grobol]

Just for the record.
I made the switch to vivid from utopic+next+CI (stable daily). I had
to remove bluedevil, but apart from that everything works. I
reactivated the utopic CI stable daily  ppa, there are some conflicts
between kate5 and kate and konsole5 and konsole, but nothing that seem
unovercomable.

L

On 5 March 2015 at 01:45, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I ask again:
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Valorie Zimmerman
> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
>>> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
>>>>> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
>>>>>>> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:13:37AM -0800, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> > writing the status here before we forget it..
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> > scarlett kindy did the backports of kf5 into utopic using the kubuntu-ninjas
>>>>>>>>>>> > PPA (after some faff failing to get the kubuntu-next/staging ppa to accept
>>>>>>>>>>> > them)
>>>>>>>>>>> > they were copied to kubuntu-ppa/next but then we had reports of them causing
>>>>>>>>>>> > failed upgrades so they were deleted
>>>>>>>>>>> > I tidied up the backport of kglobalaccel which was breaking the upgrades
>>>>>>>>>>> > Now when I try to copy them over to kubuntu-ppa/next it complains there is
>>>>>>>>>>> > already that version of the package in kubuntu-ppa/next even though there is
>>>>>>>>>>> > not
> ...
>>>>>>>>>>> > Jonathan
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Are we actually supporting next and next-backports for 14.10? My
>>>>>>>>>>> broken system makes it appear that we are not.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I suggest that we remove the notice about those in the KDE wiki, and
>>>>>>>>>>> suggest people either use one of the ISOs for 14.10 or install Beta 1
>>>>>>>>>>> Vivid.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I've never had an upgrade leave me unable to login to KDE before. Not
>>>>>>>>>>> a good experience. I know that the next and next-backports are testing
>>>>>>>>>>> material, so I was fairly warned. But we've run out of time to support
>>>>>>>>>>> them, so let's cut our losses and put our energy into Vivid.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> This sounds like a realistic idea to me.  We don't seem to have the
>>>>>>>>>> energy needed for a kf5 backport, we've said there won't be an upgrade
>>>>>>>>>> root for 14.10 plasma5 to 15.04, so we'd be perfectly ok it's just a
>>>>>>>>>> tech preview and it won't get any better.
>
> ::big snip::
>
>> For now, shall I remove all advice to use next in
>> https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Packages#Kubuntu which is where we
>> always point people?
>>
>> That wiki page should be prominent in our
>> https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu space, I'm thinking.
>>
>> Since this is a matter of policy, can the rest of the council speak up please?
>
> Valorie
>
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Loïc Grobol.