It's expected an update install packages marked as unstable on the KDE Neon User Edition?

luzfcb · April 12, 2023, 9:16pm

Hello, since I had a hard time a few weeks ago with a KDE Neon User Edition packages update that conflicted with 32-bit Ubuntu dependencies needed for Steam and Wine to work, I’ve become more careful before applying updates.

Today (or yesterday), a big update came out, and I noticed that some of the packages include the name unstable as part of their name.

The question is: is it perfectly expected that specifically KDE Neon User Edition might include some software/libraries explicitly marked as unstable?

For reference, packages that have unstable in their name are:


  libqt5qml5-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64    Qt 5 QML module
  libqt5qmlmodels5-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64      Qt 5 QML Models library
  libqt5qmlworkerscript5-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64        Qt 5 QML Worker Script library
  libqt5quick5-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64  Qt 5 Quick library
  libqt5quick5-dbgsym-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64   debug symbols for libqt5quick5
  libqt5quickparticles5-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64 Qt 5 Quick particles module
  libqt5quickshapes5-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64    Qt 5 Quick Shapes module
  libqt5quickwidgets5-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64   Qt 5 Quick Widgets library
  libqt5script5-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230411.0041-0.amd64 Qt 5 script module
  libqt5scripttools5-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230411.0041-0.amd64    Qt 5 script tools module
  qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64    Qt 5 folderlistmodel QML module
  qml-module-qt-labs-qmlmodels-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64  Qt 5 Qt.labs.qmlmodels QML module
  qml-module-qt-labs-settings-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64   Qt 5 settings QML module
  qml-module-qtqml-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64      Qt 5 QtQml QML module
  qml-module-qtqml-models2-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64      Qt 5 Models2 QML module
  qml-module-qtquick-layouts-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64    Qt 5 Quick Layouts QML module
  qml-module-qtquick-particles2-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64 Qt 5 particles 2 QML module
  qml-module-qtquick-shapes-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64     Qt 5 Qt Quick Shapes QML module
  qml-module-qtquick-window2-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64    Qt 5 window 2 QML module
  qml-module-qtquick2-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230408.0048-0.amd64   Qt 5 Qt Quick 2 QML module
  qtscript5-dev-5.15.8+p22.04+tunstable+git20230411.0041-0.amd64 Qt 5 script development files

Here the output of sudo pkcon refresh and sudo pkcon update:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/luzfcb/98e647ca168ce9261f440c26030e226a#file-pkcon_refresh-log

pkcon_refresh.log

luzfcb@pc:~$ sudo pkcon refresh 
Refreshing cache              [=========================]         
Loading cache                 [=========================]         
Downloading packages          [=========================]         
Running                       [=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]         
 Enabled                              https://downloads.1password.com/linux/debian/amd64 stable InRelease
 Enabled                              https://repo.steampowered.com/steam stable InRelease
 Enabled                              https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu jammy InRelease
 Enabled                              https://downloads.1password.com/linux/debian/amd64 stable InRelease

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pkcon_update.log

luzfcb@pc:~$ sudo pkcon update
Getting updates               [=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]         
Testing changes               [=========================]         
Finished                      [                         ] (0%)  
The following packages have to be installed:
 libpoppler127-23.04.0-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build14.amd64 PDF rendering library
The following packages have to be updated:
 baloo-kf5-5.105.0-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build24.amd64     framework for searching and managing metadata
 breeze-icon-theme-4:5.105.0-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build14.all     Default Plasma icon theme

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carl · April 13, 2023, 6:14am

Yes this is expected for the qt packages as they contains our patches, but don’t worry this is normal and the package are only marked unstable because they come from git