Plasma 5.5.3 & KDE Frameworks 5.18 Backported To Kubuntu 15.10

[7oby]

No, it's the same bug. There was an attempted fix for 5.5 and it failed spectacularly.

Thanks for pointing that out - I indeed only checked the fix version field in the header of the QT Bug and did not read the entire conversation with > 90 comments.

The situation is quite messy: The corresponding Ubuntu Bug is marked as fixed for a couple of reasons - one being that the former fixes have been applied and more recently because qt lib version 5.5.1 entered the xenial (16.04 LTS) repo:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtdeclarative-opensource-src/+bug/1450137/comments/23

It seems unlikely that qt 5.6 will enter xenial having a planned RC release date for 16th Feb and the final release scheduled for 1st March:

https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-5.6-release

Ubuntu 16.04 has its feature freeze on 18th Feb:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule

The best one can do in this situation is probably filing a new bug report in launchpad / ubuntu and asking to backport this set of patches:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42985?focusedCommentId=301337&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-301337

[7oby]

By the way, we only do backports once the work has been packaged and tested on Xenial first

Where can I get Plasma 5.5.x on a Xenial (16.04) stack? The official ubuntu repos still feature plasma-workspace (4:5.4.3-0ubuntu1):

http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/plasma-workspace

same applies to the Kubuntu 16.04 Xenial nightly build:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/

I do see that only in the backports ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+...=150&start=150
Any of those?
https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/PP...ackage_Staging

On 6th of March Kubuntu 16.04 Xenial packages are still the same as those for Kubuntu 15.10: Plasma 5.4, KDE Frameworks 5.15, KDE Applications 15.08. Only qt has been upgraded from 5.4 -> 5.5 and for that the standard ubuntu team seems to be accounted for.

No sign of Plasma 5.5 - 5.6, KDE Frameworks 5.19 or KDE Applications 15.12. Afford seems to be shifted towards distributions such as Neon

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Neon-Launches