Hi,
Is there an option d) . . . . to not d-u till debian sid catches up. Or is this not an option due to the piecemeal way things are being uploaded?
Short answer: I would say this is not an option due "to the piecemeal way things are uploaded" and several other reasons.
Long answer:
Well, if you are not using kdenext already you can try to do that. But you have a problem, and it's the following million dollar question "When do I know when debian sid catched up?"
I can't reply to that question, only the person in charge of KDE in debian can, because in addition to "the piecemeal way things are being uploaded" the packages they are attempting to upload are a port of kubuntus packaging. My packages are a port of kubuntu's packaging too, but they have some changes compared with the packages from debian:
- Allow you to dist-upgrade from KDE SC 4 without problems
- Allow you to use the packages in a system without the "install recommends automatically" enabled (and this is the default for siduction so far)
- Fix the problems described here by early siduction testers (thanks for the feedback guys!) http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5587.0
- kio-mtp works (i.e. you can plugin your android phone and see the files)
- Allow you to use yakuake in Plasma 5
Also note that all the complete KDE Sofware stack is available in kdenext with their needed dependencies; they are right now more than 300 source packages developed with the help of an automation tool I wrote (kubuntu's people have one too). The automation tools we have are very specific to the distribution and I don't know if they have one in debian which would work properly for frameworks/plasma5/kde-applications or not.
So, given all the issues I have explained above they might take some time to catch up. As I said I don't know when they would be ready, if you really want to stay with debian's packaging the best thing is that you ask them to write a mail to debian-kde@lists.alioth.org notifying that everything is fine again, good luck with that.
One thing more, any problem with debian's packaging? you should ask the debian kde guy. Any problem with kdenext's packages? As a kdenext user you are under my protection and you can ask me; and talking about that there are a couple of reasons to not include your proposed option d in my advice post:
- if you ask people from debian and they find out you are not using debian but siduction they may refuse to help you
- at the same time you won't get support from me for debian's packages
- due to all the things I have explained above in this post, your proposed option d) doesn't fit in my definition of "What to do to 'survive' gracefully"
Still, if you want to continue to use debian's kde packaging, that's your choice, but as I said you should ask debian's people for help, not me.
P.S. I would like to reply to more stuff in this thread but I don't have much time right now.