Warning: Plasma 6 migrating to Sid

[devil]

Plasma 6 will be migrating from Experimental to Sid within the next few days. Please ensure you read the APT output, when you do full-upgrade.

Plasma 6 wird in den nächsten Tagen von Experimental nach Sid migrieren. Bitte lest, was APT schreibt, wenn ihr ein full-upgrade durchführt.

[Pip]

Exciting!

[RunLevelZero]

[language=english]Can't wait[/language]

[Mte90]

wow finally!

[DeepDayze]

About time! I been playing with the experimental Plasma 6 packages on a test system and it's great. Looking forward to seeing the Plasma 6 stuff roll in and of course will check the apt output before letting d-u proceed

[seasons]

Did thumbnails in Dolphin break for anyone else? I've been using Plasma 6 in experimental for a couple months (I think?), but I was hoping this bug would resolve itself once everything hit unstable.

[DeepDayze]

Did thumbnails in Dolphin break for anyone else? I've been using Plasma 6 in experimental for a couple months (I think?), but I was hoping this bug would resolve itself once everything hit unstable.

I haven't seen any issues with thumbnails in Plasma 6 Dolphin as tested jpeg, webp, heif image formats. What file types are broken as far as thumbnails?

[whistler_mb]

I have been using plasma 6 for over a month and I have not seen any problems with the thumbnails in Dolphin.

[seasons]

What file types are broken as far as thumbnails?

Everything. I tried toggling the setting off/on, and I may have tried clearing the user cache/config for Dolphin (I forget). But if it's just a problem on my system, I'm not going to worry about it. Thanks, folks.

[devil]

Plasma 6 is supposed to be trickling into unstable today or tomorrow. This will not happen all at once, which means you have to be very cautious with your full-upgrades.

The mail from the dev who does the upload goes like this:

Dear fellow developers and Plasma users,

after some months living in experimental and lots of positive feedback, we're about to upload Plasma 6 to unstable.
The plans of the Qt / KDE team is to release Trixie with :
    - Qt 5 & 6
    - KDE Frameworks 5 aka KF5 (based on Qt 5) & KF6 (based on Qt6)
    - Plasma 6 (based on KF6 and Qt6)
    - KDE Gear applications of the moment. We expect to ship a mix of KF5 and KF6-based Gear applications depending on where upstream is with their porting effort of these mostly independent applications.

What we won't be supporting for Trixie are Plasma 5 libraries, so if you maintain rdeps of Plasma 5 libraries now is time to port them to Plasma 6 or to remove them from testing. We've filed bugs for all the rdeps not in our team's perimeter some weeks back [1]. We will be bumping their severity to RC in preparation the upload of Plasma 6 to unstable. We've tried our best to identify affected packages but we may have missed some so if you know your packages depend on Plasma and they're not in this list please do double check compatibility with Plasma 6.

There are cross-dependencies between some bits of Plasma, the accounts SSO stack, some KF5/6 libraries and some Gear apps, so expect some breakage in the online accounts functionality while the pieces are moving.

Also we currently don't have a satisfying way of ensuring the entirety of Plasma migrates to testing synchronously, so when Plasma 6 packages start migrating to testing you'll have to be extra careful with what your apt / Discover upgrades announce to avoid removing your desktop.


Happy hacking,
--
Patrick & Aurélien for the Qt/KDE Team

You have been warned

[RunLevelZero]

[language=english]I doubt this is the case but I want to ask. I know wayland is what everyone is switching to so I'm wondering if when we upgrade to kde if we are switched to wayland automatically as a dependency in some way? I feel dumb asking but I need my remote sessions to continue working. Sounds like we are just a few days away at this point. It is still safe to do the normal upgrade not full-upgrade also?[/language]

[edlin]

Use 

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apt update && apt --solver 3.0 full-upgrade

This does not mean 100% security, but should get you through the changeover to Plasma 6 relatively safely over the next few days.

edlin

[hendrikL]

It is still safe to do the normal upgrade not full-upgrade also?

No, this will break your system sooner than later!

See the post above, use the option --solver 3.0, this is the way to go!

[RunLevelZero]

[language=english]Thanks. This is what I usually run but in this case I would just do a upgrade and not full-upgrade. sudo apt update && sudo apt --solver 3.0 full-upgrade. Normally this is safe during these types of changes but thus I don't want to break anything and therefore the question just to make sure my dumb a** doesn't do exactly that .[/language]

It is still safe to do the normal upgrade not full-upgrade also?

No, this will break your system sooner than later!

See the post above, use the option --solver 3.0, this is the way to go!

[RunLevelZero]

[language=english]Thank you very much.[/language]

Use 

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apt update && apt --solver 3.0 full-upgrade

This does not mean 100% security, but should get you through the changeover to Plasma 6 relatively safely over the next few days.

edlin