Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
The approved KDE change
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/KDE_Plasma_6 indicates the intent
for existing Plasma X11 installs to switch to Wayland during the upgrade
process.
There's no perfect answer as some users will be happy to switch to
Wayland, while others will not, while perhaps more will not even be aware
of anything changing.
IMHO if the KDE Sig wants the upgrade path to take users from X11 to
Wayland automatically, then the criteria for allowing back in RPMs
with X11 builds should include "no interference with the X11->Wayland
upgrade path determined by the KDE Sig".
The BZ ticket indicates that there was some testing to show that is not
causing a problem with the upgrades, so it might be a non-issue, but
setting clear expectations in this respect would be a good idea anyway.
As I wrote (and confirmed by testing) in the BZ ticket, the packages as
submitted already do not interfere with the X11->Wayland upgrade path
determined by the KDE Sig, and I do not intend changing that. (Adding
versioned self-Obsoletes could possibly theoretically achieve that, but that
is a game I do not intend to play. The only thing I care about, which is why
I bumped that Epoch, is that the upgrade Obsoletes is applied only ONCE on
the upgrade to Fedora 40 and not on routine updates in Fedora 40 or on
upgrades from Fedora 40 to later releases, because anybody who still/again
has the -x11 packages on Fedora 40 has explicitly opted in and should not
have to opt in repeatedly.)
While (as also stated in the BZ ticket) I disagree that it is helpful to
forcefully remove the -x11 packages on the upgrade to F40, my packages do
not and will not interfere with that process.
If you want to explicitly encode this in the proposal, I am OK with that,
but then it should also explicitly say that further updates/upgrades should
not obsolete my packages (i.e., that the KDE SIG is not allowed to bump the
Epoch of their Obsoletes – I really do not want to get into an Epoch war
about that Obsoletes and I hope the KDE SIG does not want that either).
Kevin Kofler