Speaker
Sandro Knauß
Description
What is Debian?
What Debian gives the whole open source community, what is special about Debian? (Cross-compiling, Mulit-Arch, reproducible builds,..)
You uses Debian?
- Cern
- Debian in outerspace
Why are a distribution like Debian with "a normal release cycle" is still relevant for KDE? Can KDE Linux replace Debian?
What it is about to package KDE software on Debian?
Who is the current Qt/KDE Maintainer team.
Why does Debian ship that old versions?
Why can't we just ship master branch?
Speak about what were/are the current challenges regarding packaging KDE software on Debian:
- loosely coupled Palsma
- kde pim (ABI)
- transitions from 4->5, 5->6
- lts support
- QML dependecy tracking
- bring patches to Debian stable
- bring current version to Debian stable
Description
I hope this talk will help to show why distribution are a relevant part in the FOSS system and KDE Linux is not the answer for everyone to get KDE software.
Biography
- long time Debian user
- official Debian Developer since 2016: https://nm.debian.org/person/hefee/
- KDE developer since a long time
