[gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal

[gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

Hi,

KDE team intends to remove unsupported KDE Workspaces 4.11 from tree, so 
please review the news item below.

Best regards,
Andreas


Title: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal
Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2017-01-08
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdebase-startkde
Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdm
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd

KDE Workspaces 4.11 has reached end of life in Portage. It was unsupported by
upstream since 19th August 2015, meaning no security bugs have been fixed since
then. It is therefore required for all users to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.

If you normally use KDM to launch a session, this is being removed as well.
Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which is pulled in by plasma-meta by
default. OpenRC users should edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER.
Systemd users should run: systemctl reenable sddm.service

Part of the cleanup will also be the KDE desktop subprofile, which is 
superseded by the Plasma desktop profile. A detailed upgrade guide is 
available[1] and recommended for its conflict removal advice.

KDE Workspaces 4.11 packages will be moved to kde-sunset overlay.[2]

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay:Kde-sunset

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> Display-If-Profile: <...>

How about arm64, amd64-fbsd and so on? :)

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

On Monday, 9 January 2017 at 01:15, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
> 
> How about arm64, amd64-fbsd and so on? :)

I've only added arch profiles for which there are actual keywords in the 
affected packages.

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

I've updated the news item based on feedback on my initial mail,
thanks to jstein.

mva, anything missing in the list of profiles here? I've grepped profiles.desc
for kde to get the current list.

Title: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal
Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2017-01-08
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdebase-startkde
Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdm
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv4/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv4t/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv5te/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv6j/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ia64/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ia64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/m68k/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/32bit-userland/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/32bit-userland/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/64bit-userland/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/64bit-userland/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sh/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sparc/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sparc/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd

KDE Workspaces 4.11 has reached end of life in Portage. Upstream dropped
support in 2015-08-19, no security bugs have been fixed since then. It is
therefore required for all users to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.

KDM is being removed as well. Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which
is pulled in by plasma-meta by default.
OpenRC users edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER.
Systemd users run: systemctl reenable sddm.service

Part of the cleanup will also be the KDE desktop profile, which is superseded
by the Plasma desktop profile. Please follow the detailed upgrade guide.[1]

KDE Workspaces 4.11 packages will be moved to kde-sunset overlay.[2]

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay:Kde-sunset

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal

[Johannes Huber]

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Am Samstag, 14. Januar 2017, 14:37:29 CET schrieb Andreas Sturmlechner:
> I've updated the news item based on feedback on my initial mail,
> thanks to jstein.
> 
> mva, anything missing in the list of profiles here? I've grepped
> profiles.desc for kde to get the current list.
> 
> Title: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal
> Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2017-01-08
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdebase-startkde
> Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdm
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/13.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv4/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv4t/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv5te/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv6j/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ia64/13.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ia64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/m68k/13.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/13.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
> Display-If-Profile:
> default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/32bit-userland/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile:
> default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/32bit-userland/desktop/kde/systemd
> Display-If-Profile:
> default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/64bit-userland/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile:
> default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/64bit-userland/desktop/kde/systemd
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sh/13.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sparc/13.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sparc/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
> 
> KDE Workspaces 4.11 has reached end of life in Portage. Upstream dropped
> support in 2015-08-19, no security bugs have been fixed since then. It is
> therefore required for all users to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.
> 
> KDM is being removed as well. Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead
> which is pulled in by plasma-meta by default.
> OpenRC users edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER.
> Systemd users run: systemctl reenable sddm.service
> 
> Part of the cleanup will also be the KDE desktop profile, which is
> superseded by the Plasma desktop profile. Please follow the detailed
> upgrade guide.[1]
> 
> KDE Workspaces 4.11 packages will be moved to kde-sunset overlay.[2]
> 
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade
> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay:Kde-sunset

Hi Andreas,

thanks that you take care of the needed news item. I would suggest to replace 
KDE Workspace 4.11 with KDE Plasma 4  in subject and body because that name is  
used in the main Gentoo KDE wiki article since some time. [1]

Greetings,
Johannes

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE

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Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 14:47, Johannes Huber wrote:
> I would suggest to replace 
> KDE Workspace 4.11 with KDE Plasma 4  in subject and body because that name 
> is used in the main Gentoo KDE wiki article since some time. [1]

Agreed, and changed accordingly. If nothing else crops up, I guess we can 
proceed with the actual news item soon.

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

Thanks to everyone providing feedback. News item submitted.

Best Regards,
Andreas