TL;DR: kdebase-workspace is dead and should be dropped from the repos The KDE4 Plasma desktop has been in maintenance mode for a few years and is EOL since last August (the git repo has been locked, so not even security fixes are allowed). We've been trying to support it alongside Plasma 5 for as long as possible, but this requires some packaging efforts, lots of duplicated KDE4 versions of libraries (also unmaintained) and is starting to cause some issues (FS#46730). Plasma 5 has been around for over a year, 5.5 has just been released and should be stable enough to replace KDE4. Therefore, I would like to drop the following packages from our repos: kdebase-workspace kdeartwork kde-wallpapers kdebase-plasma kdeplasma4-addons bluedevil4 kscreen4 kdeplasma-applets-plasma-nm kcm-touchpad There are a few other packages which currently depend on kdebase-workspace: ktorrent - can be compiled without linking to kworkspace (will lose the shutdown plugin) knemo - there is a working frameworks branch, we should switch to it digikam - will lose the theme chooser (not a big loss) openbox - simply calls startkde, so the dependency just needs to be changed to plasma-workspace qtcurve - the configuration UI has been ported to KF5 over a year ago, but there is no release yet - we should package a git snapshot, the current version is too old anyway I don't plan to automatically upgrade to Plasma 5; this would be difficult technically due to the split packages and also the configuration is not migrated, so it's better to let users upgrade manually. Note that this affects the KDE4 desktop only: KDE4 applications (kde-runtime) are still supported and will be for the foreseeable future. Any objections?