[FFe] KDE Frameworks 5.38.0 into the Artful Archive

[Rik Mills]

This bug report is a Feature Freeze Exception request on behalf of the Kubuntu team for KDE Frameworks 5.38.0 (updated from 5.38.0).

The releases since KDE Frameworks 5.37.0 are the following:

  https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.38.0.php

As is usual with a KDE Frameworks release, this is a mixture of new some new features and incremental important bugfixes.

We currently have this staged in ppa:kubuntu-ppa/staging-frameworks if you wish to inspect the packages. There are no additional problems that need addressing at the moment. You can take a look for yourself here:

  http://qa.kubuntu.co.uk/ppa-status/frameworks/build_status_5.38.0_artful.html

We have also run autotests for amd64 and i386, which as far as we can test considering test infra differences seem ok, or at least do not cause additional regressions. However, should issues occur on those or other architectures, we commit to fixing those issues for release.

Note: This update should resolve the test regressions of kwindowsystem against openbox in update_excuses.

We also have testers that have been running a system with this staged update and have reported no problems.

The following packages form the KDE Frameworks set:

attica-kf5
baloo-kf5
bluez-qt
breeze-icons
extra-cmake-modules
frameworkintegration
kactivities-kf5
kactivities-stats
kapidox
karchive
kauth
kbookmarks
kcmutils
kcodecs
kcompletion
kconfig
kconfigwidgets
kcoreaddons
kcrash
kdbusaddons
kdeclarative
kded
kdelibs4support
kdesignerplugin
kdesu
kdewebkit
kdnssd-kf5
kdoctools
kemoticons
kfilemetadata-kf5
kglobalaccel
kguiaddons
khtml
ki18n
kiconthemes
kidletime
kimageformats
kinit
kio
kirigami2
kitemmodels
kitemviews
kjobwidgets
kjs
kjsembed
kmediaplayer
knewstuff
knotifications
knotifyconfig
kpackage
kparts
kpeople
kplotting
kpty
kross
krunner
kservice
ksyntax-highlighting
ktexteditor
ktextwidgets
kunitconversion
kwallet-kf5
kwayland
kwidgetsaddons
kwindowsystem
kxmlgui
kxmlrpcclient
modemmanager-qt
networkmanager-qt
oxygen-icons5
plasma-framework
prison-kf5
solid
sonnet
threadweaver

[Michael Marley (mamarley)]

I've been running this since it was staged a few weeks ago and haven't had any issues.

[Rik Mills (rikmills)]

We had access to pre-release tarballs for this update on Sat 2nd Sept, and I have been using the staged packages on my primary Artful system now for ~ 1 week. I have not experienced any issues.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This looks sensible to me.

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

Successfully tested:

Updated my AA VM. Noticed that KDE Frameworks was at 5.37.
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/staging-frameworks
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y
176 updates successfully processed
Re-boot.
Tested the Kicker Application launcher, launching Firefox, Konsole, Discover and System Monitor successfully.
Unchecked the PPA from Discover.
Successfully tested krunner, and launched System Settings > Desktop Settings > Unchecked screen locker.
Successfully tested krunner, and launched kinfocenter and noticed KDE Frameworks had been updated to 5.38.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I believe this is complete now.