A significant chunk of packages are currently uninstallable (and forcably removed) after adding and upgrading to the neon package archive, due to (in 16.04) dependency on qtbase-abi-5-5-1. I understand that kde-applications have not been brought into the archive yet, but is there also a plan to build all the other dependent software (eg, python-pyqt5*, etc)? In the short term there should probably be some prominent warnings somewhere that QT-based software won't work in conjunction with neon, and if added to an existing installation, will result in the removal of such software when upgrading to the neon archive. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add neon to an existing install 2. dist-upgrade 3. Lose packages depending on qtbase-abi-5-5-1 or 1. Install neon from media 2. Try to install package depending on <5.6 QT ABI Actual Results: Packages are removed in the first case, and fail to install both cases.
Created attachment 98888 [details] Reverse deps for qtbase-abi-5-5-1, some of these are obviously superseded by neon packages
http://neon.kde.org/faq#how-to-add http://neon.kde.org/faq#morph-kubuntu software that isn't installed or built by us we generally do not care about. neon is not a distribution. pyqt probably is coming at some point
Right... it's surely worth a FAQ entry to state that any and all QT-based software that isn't a part of KDE cannot be installed while running neon - that's a pretty big deal, and is not clear at all.