Tracking library dependencies work in Debian to resolve from symbols usage to a library and add this to the list of dependencies. That is working for years now. The KDE community nowadays create more and more QML based applications. Unfortunately QML is a interpreted language, this means missing QML dependencies will only be an issue at runtime. To fix this I created dh_qmldeps , that searches for…
In order to prepare for the Akademy I started some days before to give my Librem 5 ( an Open Hardware Phone) another try and ended up with a non starting Plasma 6. Actually this issue was known already, but hasn't been addressed. In the end I reached the Akademy with my Librem 5 having phosh installed (which is Gnome based), in order to have something working. I met Bushan and Bart who took care…
The KDE Bugzilla handles a lot of projects and they often match with the repo name, but not always. For instance we have ancient products and components at Bugzilla, as projects have a lifecycle from playground into Release Service, or Frameworks, sometimes with a change of name. So you may end up searching Bugzilla quite awhile for the correct product and component to be able to confirm or create…
When coding at Kontact you normally don't have to care a lot about dependencies in between the different KDE Pim packages, because there are great tools available already. kdesrc-build finds a solution to build all KDE Pim packages in the correct order. The KDE Pim docker image gives you an environment with all dependencies preinstalled, so you can start hacking on KDE Pim directly. While hacking…