Contents

  1. Target Versions for Trixie
  2. Notable information
    1. Shipping Qt6 / Qt5 Stacks
    2. Transitions before the freeze
  3. Schedules
    1. Team Coordination with the Trixie Release Schedule
    2. Debian and KDE Schedules Side-by-side
  4. Unblock requests
  5. Backports
  6. Packages Added / Dropped
  7. Reference Documents

Target Versions for Trixie

Notable information

Shipping Qt6 / Qt5 Stacks

With the Qt5 stack now being deep in maintenance mode, we will be shipping mostly Qt6 libraries and applications.

What we will ship for the Qt5 stack :

What we will not be shipping :

Transitions before the freeze

TBD

Schedules

Team Coordination with the Trixie Release Schedule

Debian and KDE Schedules Side-by-side

Milestone Date

Debian

KDE

Frameworks

Plasma

Gear

2025-01-09

6.10

6.2.90 (beta1)

24.12.1

2025-01-23

6.2.91 (beta2)

2025-02-06

24.12.2

2025-02-11

6.3.0

2025-02-14

6.11

2025-02-18

6.3.1

2025-02-25

6.3.2

2025-03-06

24.12.3

2025-03-11

6.3.3

2025-03-14

6.12

2025-03-15

Transition and
toolchain freeze

 

2025-03-27

25.03.90 (RC)

2025-04-01

6.3.4

2025-04-11

6.13

2025-04-15

Soft Freeze

 

2025-04-17

25.04.0

2025-05-06

6.3.5

2025-05-08

25.04.1

2025-05-15

Hard Freeze

 

2025-05-19

5.116

2025-06-02

25.04.2

2025-07-03

25.04.3

2025-07-08

6.3.6

2025-07-27

Full Freeze

 

Legend :

TODO

Skipped

Partially uploaded
package set

Uploaded

Unblock requests

Type

Package

Bugs

Reason

Commit

Upload

Unblock

Status

Frameworks

Backports

Package Set

Topic

Upstream Refs

Package

Debian Refs

Version

Status

When

Qt6

QOpenGlContext: Always unset current context in doneCurrent()

qtbase/10c195b8

src:qt6-base

qt6-base/a32b5c54

6.8.2+dfsg-4

Uploaded
experimental

2025-02-15

QThreadPrivate saying "QThreadStorage: Thread %p exited after QThreadStorage %d destroyed"

qtbase/a43c7e58

qtbase/2ef61522

qtbase/12d4bf1a

Frameworks

Plasma

Make Breeze Dark darker

breeze/9c13ba31

src:breeze

breeze/f9ca85c7

6.3.0-1

Uploaded

2025-02-10

libplasma/2038cf78

src:libplasma

libplasma/107674c6

4:6.3.0-1

Uploaded

2025-02-10

Gear

Packages Added / Dropped

List of packages {*} added, {i} replacing another package or {X} dropped between bookworm and trixie.

Type

{*} {X}

Package

Comment

Qt5

{X}

src:qtdoc-opensource-src

{X}

src:qtremoteobjects-everywhere-src

{X}

src:qtscxml-everywhere-src

{X}

src:qtserialbus-everywhere-src

{X}

src:qtstyleplugins-src

{X}

src:qtwebkit-opensource-src

Qt6

{*}

src:qt6-graphs

Qt 6 graphs module

{*}

src:qt6-grpc

Qt 6 gRPC module

{*}

src:qt6-location

Qt 6 location module

{*}

src:qt6-quickeffectmaker

Qt 6 ?QtQuick effect maker module

KF5

{i}

src:kwayland-kf5

Ships the same contents that was previously in src:kwayland which is now part of Plasma 6

{X}

src:extra-cmake-modules

Replaced by src:kf6-extra-cmake-modules

{X}

src:kdelibs4support

Qt4 compatibility layer, not used in any Debian package

{X}

src:kdewebkit

Out of security support

{X}

src:khtml

Out of security support

{X}

src:kjs

Out of security support

{X}

src:kjsembed

Out of security support

KF6

{*}

72 kf6-* packages

including src:kf6-extra-cmake-modules

Plasma

{*}

src:krdp

RDP Server and settings module for Plasma

{*}

src:ocean-sound-theme

New sound theme for Plasma 6

{*}

src:plasma5support

Plasma support for Qt5 applications

{i}

src:plasma-activities

Qt6 continuation of Qt5-based src:kactivities-kf5

{i}

src:plasma-activities-stats

Qt6 continuation of Qt5-based src:kactivities-stats

{i}

src:kgamma

Replaces src:kgamma5

{i}

src:kglobalacceld

Replaces src:khotkeys

{i}

src:libplasma

Qt6 continuation of Qt5-based src:plasma-framework

{X}

src:oxygen-fonts

Abandoned upstream

{X}

src:plasma-bigscreen

Development stopped

{X}

src:plasma-remotecontrollers

Development stopped

Gear

PIM

{*}

src:mimetreeparser

MIME tree parser

{i}

src:libkgapi5

Ships a Qt5 build of src:libkgapi for compatibility with Qt5 applications

{i}

src:calendarsupport

Replaces src:libkf5calendarsupport

{i}

src:eventviews

Replaces src:libkf5eventviews

{i}

src:grantleetheme

Replaces src:libkf5grantleetheme

{i}

src:incidenceeditor

Replaces src:libkf5incidenceeditor

{i}

src:libgravatar

Replaces src:libkf5gravatar

{i}

src:libkdepim

Replaces src:libkf5libkdepim

{i}

src:libkleo

Replaces src:libkf5libkleo

{i}

src:libksieve

Replaces src:libkf5ksieve

{i}

src:mailcommon

Replaces src:libkf5mailcommon

{i}

src:mailimporter

Replaces src:libkf5mailimporter

{i}

src:merkuro

Replaces src:kalendar

{i}

src:messagelib

Replaces src:kf5-messagelib

{i}

src:pimcommon

Replaces src:libkf5pimcommon

{X}

src:akonadi-notes

Abandoned upstream

{X}

src:kjots

Abandoned upstream, src:marknote recommended as a replacement

{X}

src:knotes

Abandoned upstream, src:marknote recommended as a replacement

Non-PIM

{*}

src:isoimagewriter

Write ISO images to USB disks

{*}

src:kde-inotify-survey

Notify user about running out of inotify watches

{*}

src:krecorder

Mobile-friendly recording app

{*}

src:tokodon

Mastodon client

{i}

src:libkdcraw

Replaces src:libkf5kdcraw

{i}

src:libkexiv2

Replaces src:libkf5kexiv2

{i}

src:libkmahjongg

Replaces src:libkf5kmahjongg

{i}

src:libksane

Replaces src:libkf5sane

{X}

src:kipi-plugins

Abandoned upstream

{X}

src:kross-interpreters

Abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-accounts-kcm

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-approver

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-auth-handler

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-call-ui

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-common-internals

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-contact-list

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-contact-runner

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-desktop-applets

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-filetransfer-handler

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-kded-integration-module

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-send-file

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:ktp-text-ui

KDE Telepathy stack abandoned upstream

{X}

src:libkf5kipi

Abandoned upstream

Mobile

{*}

src:calindori

Calendar for Plasma Mobile

{*}

src:kasts

Podcats application

{*}

src:kclock

Clock for Plasma Mobile

{*}

src:koko

Image gallery for Plasma Mobile

{*}

src:kweather

Weather app for Plasma Mobile

{*}

src:kweathercore

Shared library for online weather used by KWeather

Others

{*}

src:amarok

Back after missing several releases !

{*}

src:klevernotes

Note taking app

{*}

src:kmplayer

Back after missing bookworm

{*}

src:ktextaddons

Text processing addons used by PIM

{*}

src:marknote

Note taking app, recommended replacement for src:kjots and src:knotes

{*}

src:xwaylandvideobridge

Wayland video bridge for X11 clients

{i}

src:kdiagram2

Ships the same contents that was previously in src:kdiagram for Qt5 apps that still need it

{i}

src:kirigami-addons5

Ships the same contents that was previously in src:kirigami-addons for Qt5 apps that still need it

{i}

src:oxygen-icons

Qt6 continuation of Qt5-based src:oxygen-icons5

{X}

src:kraft

Not ported to Qt6 / KF6 and depends on old PIM / python libs

{X}

src:latte-dock

Not ported to Qt6 / Plasma 6

Third Party

{*}

src:futuresql

Non-blocking database framework used by several Gear apps

{*}

src:gammaray

Tool for examining the internals of Qt applications

{*}

src:immer

C++ data structures library

{*}

src:kdsoap-ws-discovery-client

Required for newer versions of src:kdsoap

{*}

src:lager

C++ library for value-oriented design

{*}

src:libkode

C++ code generation and XML/XSD parsing

{*}

src:mpvqt

libmpv wrapper for ?QtQuick2 and QML

{*}

src:pyside6

Python bindings for Qt6

{*}

src:zug

C++ library providing transducers

{X}

src:bismuth

Not ported to Qt6 / Plasma 6

{X}

src:calamares-extensions

Not ported to Qt6 / KF 6 whereas src:calamares itself now relies on Qt6

{X}

src:charmtimetracker

Abandoned upstream

{X}

src:gtk2-engines-oxygen

Abandoned upstream

{X}

src:qt-gstreamer

Abandoned upstream

{X}

src:soundkonverter

Abandoned upstream

{X}

src:telepathy-accounts-signon

Abandoned upstream

{X}

src:telepathy-logger-qt

Abandoned upstream

Reference Documents

CategoryPackaging | CategoryPermalink: mentioned in the Release Notes for trixie