Re: Debian trixie and Kf5 (and kbibtex)

Antonio Russo ha scritto:
> Hello!
> 
> tldr: Is Kf5 being removed before trixie is released?
> 
> First of all, thanks for all the amazing work getting Plasma 6
> into testing.  I'm trying to make sure that some less-used KDE
> packages don't get passed over by putting in some of the legwork.
> 
> In particular, I'm trying to make sure that kbibtex (a LaTeX
> bibliography manager) makes it into trixie.  My concern is
> that Kf5 may be removed from trixie.  I feel like I read this
> somewhere, but I cannot find anything authoritative.

I'm not part of the Debian Qt/KDE team but the official statement was written
down here:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2024/11/msg00016.html

"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)
[...]
"

So probably no concerns.

> If so, I'd appreciate any input on my attempt to get a Kf6
> version of it into Debian [1].  The issue is that kbibtex is
> mature software, and hasn't seen a release for over a year.
> That release is already in Debian but does not build against
> QT6/Kf6.  Git master does, and I've built a local package that
> seems to work (but honestly needs more testing given my
> somewhat random choice of development snapshot).  I was hoping
> to get this maybe into experimental for a bit, and then into
> testing right before the freeze.

If you want a Qt6 version of kbibtex, please push the upstream author to
release one.
>From the tracking point of view, kbibtex is still primarily a KF5 application:
https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/repo-metadata/-/blob/master/projects-invent/office/kbibtex/i18n.json?ref_type=heads

That's the first bit that should be changed, i.e. a Qt6- only master branch.

Ciao
-- 
Luigi