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    From Martin Steigerwald@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 26 10:30:01 2024
    Hi!

    Aurélien COUDERC - 23.11.24, 13:14:40 MEZ:
    after some months living in experimental and lots of positive feedback,
    we're about to upload Plasma 6 to unstable.

    I upgraded two Plasma 6 on experimental systems just fine. No issues whatsoever!

    I also upgraded one pure unstable machine with Plasma 5. apt wanted to
    removed plasma-workspace and kde-plasma-desktop. I installed
    plasma-workspace afterwards again as I had no Plasma session in SDDM to
    choose from after reboot. I installed kde-plasma-desktop afterwards again
    as I only had a black screen with working krunner but no Plasma desktop
    with background after just installing plasma-workspace.

    Both meta packages are needed.

    It is unclear to me on why apt wanted to remove those essential meta
    packages as they were perfectly installable.

    So if you are upgrading from unstable, please make sure that you have
    these two meta packages installed or reinstall them.

    The desktop now appearing lost the background image I set for it and the control panel seems to have lost some quick starter applet for some apps,
    but otherwise appears to be just fine. I have seen loosing applets on
    previous Plasma 5 to 6 from experimental upgrades before, but was able to
    add new equivalent applets for most of the stuff. So maybe that is to be expected on upgrade.

    Best,
    --
    Martin - please no carbon copy to me

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  • From Martin Steigerwald@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 26 10:50:02 2024
    Martin Steigerwald - 26.11.24, 10:24:23 MEZ:
    I also upgraded one pure unstable machine with Plasma 5. apt wanted to removed plasma-workspace and kde-plasma-desktop. I installed
    plasma-workspace afterwards again as I had no Plasma session in SDDM to choose from after reboot. I installed kde-plasma-desktop afterwards
    again as I only had a black screen with working krunner but no Plasma
    desktop with background after just installing plasma-workspace.

    Both meta packages are needed.

    It is unclear to me on why apt wanted to remove those essential meta
    packages as they were perfectly installable.

    Maybe the reason is as easy as mirror not yet having been complete. I
    upgraded again after the major upgrade and plasma-desktop was upgraded to 6.2.3-1. So maybe some temporary not yet all was complete thing.

    Look carefully whether apt wants to remove plasma-workspace and kde-plasma-desktop. If it does for testing purposes it would be kind of
    you could wait a bit more to see whether it goes through at a later time. Otherwise make sure you install them again.

    Best,
    --
    Martin - please no carbon copy to me

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