Packaging KDE on Debian
What is Debian?
What Debian gives the whole open source community, what is special about Debian? (Cross-compiling, Mulit-Arch, reproducible builds,..)
You uses Debian?
- Cern
- Debian in outerspace
Why are a distribution like Debian with "a normal release cycle" is still relevant for KDE? Can KDE Linux replace Debian?
What it is about to package KDE software on Debian?
Who is the current Qt/KDE Maintainer team.
Why does Debian ship that old versions?
Why can't we just ship master branch?
Speak about what were/are the current challenges regarding packaging KDE software on Debian:
- loosely coupled Palsma
- kde pim (ABI)
- transitions from 4->5, 5->6
- lts support
- QML dependecy tracking
- bring patches to Debian stable
- bring current version to Debian stable
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