Martin Steigerwald - 22.12.22, 09:16:50 CET: > I made an interesting experience regarding the current Qt transition: > I updated a ThinkPad X1 Gen 1 Tablet with "apt upgrade" yesterday. > > Parts of the Plasma desktop are still broken. Some part of systray > misses some QML files, KRunner shows up as an empty pane without > anything, the lock screen is not usable and several other issues. So > it can still happen with just "apt upgrade" that you have an only > partly usable system afterwards. Of course I'd argue that this is an > issue with missing versioned dependencies. However it appears to me > that it is quite different to completely get this right with a > software stack of this complexity. > > So I will just wait until a "full-upgrade" can run through fully on > this tablet and probably stay away from a "upgrade" on my laptop as > well for a few days. However I used "apt upgrade" to upgrade my
Well, which was possible today already. All issues I found are fixed by today's update. I also fully upgraded on my main laptop. All fine there as well. So at least for the sets of packages I use, the update goes through smoothly now. According to https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/qtbase-abi-5-15-7.html almost all packages are built for AMD64 already. > laptop earlier on the same day and have seen no such updates. The > tablet has not been updated for a longer time, but that should not > really make much of a difference. And that might have made *the* difference. Some KF5 related packages were still at 5.90 on this tablet after the "apt upgrade" yesterday. Of course these were more current version on my main laptop. Ciao, -- Martin
