Hi Michael, On Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:43:09 CEST Michael Bromilow wrote:

Hi,

My apologies if this is not the right list to ask this, but are there any plans to build Plasma 6 packages for kde-unstable now that it's being shipped in unstable KDE Neon releases and the nightly/testing repos of a few other distros?

I would also love to see this in the repos! But I guess we need to wait a bit more for that. At least, until KDE releases the first beta of Plasma 6 (note that there isn't an official schedule for Plasma 6 yet). Plasma 6 is quite broken (or at least when I tried some weeks ago), so probably packaging Plasma 6 as-is is not worth the extra effort. But maybe Antonio Rojas, who maintains the KDE packages, can correct me. And regarding when to expect the first beta, check this post [1] by Nate Graham to get some rough dates.

On the same topic, is the kde-unstable repo still an official repo? It's listed in the Wiki, still shows up as a repository on archlinux.org/packages, and still syncs through Pacman, but it has no packages (I'm not sure for how long) and I noticed that it's also missing from the Gitlab instance containing packages for the other repositories.

Yes, it is still an official repo. It is normally empty, and it only gets packages whenever there is a beta of Plasma or KDE Gear. For example, I tested Plasma 5.27 Beta using the Arch repos some months ago. Cheers, Iyán [1]: https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/30/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-development-...

My apologies if this is not the right list to ask this, but are there any plans to build Plasma 6 packages for kde-unstable now that it's being shipped in unstable KDE Neon releases and the nightly/testing repos of a few other distros?

I guess that's mainly Antonio Rojas' decision. Likely he would create such packages as soon as there is an official alpha/beta release. I would like to see such packaging myself. However, at this point it would only make sense to me if such packages would be co-installable with the Qt/KF 5 versions. I've already seen AUR packages but they don't appear to be co- installable.

On the same topic, is the kde-unstable repo still an official repo? It's listed in the Wiki, still shows up as a repository on archlinux.org/packages, and still syncs through Pacman, but it has no packages (I'm not sure for how long) and I noticed that it's also missing from the Gitlab instance containing packages for the other repositories.

I consider it official but of course you should not complain if it is unstable (and rather be prepared to file upstream bugs). This repo usually contains alpha/beta releases of Qt and KDE packages but might be empty if there's currently no alpha/beta. To get a Plasma 6 environment under Arch for porting Syncthing Tray's "plasmoid" to Plasma 6 I so far used a very hacky but also very simple approach: https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/d4bcf35ee634 - This is of course not what you have asked for but maybe still helpful. To use the manually built/installed binaries you'll have to execute the "prefix"-script CMake will tell you about (otherwise Plasma will not be able to find all its files under the custom install prefix).