Hi, Starting with "Use platform detection from KWorkSpace in KCMShell" (896dd55), kde-cli-tools builds depends on libkworkspace (which is part of plasma-workspace). On the other hand, plasma-workspace uses kde-cli-tools as a runtime dependency. This generates a circular dependency that when using strict version dependencies makes the package impossible to build. These strict version dependencies are necessary because components inside plasma tend to change without indicating the versions that they need. One possibility would be to copy the detectPlatform function into kde-cli-tools (it's only 22 lines, no interaction with the rest of the library). This has already been done in kded. Another possibility would be to move the detectPlatform function to libkf5plasma in plasma-frameworks, and update plasma-workspace, kded, kde-cli-tools, systemsettings, and powerdevil to use that exported function. Happy hacking,
Hi Maximiliano, we plan on removing all the platform detection stuff again for the next Plasma release: https://phabricator.kde.org/T9093 Is it fine if the problem is solved this way for 5.14 and above only?
I guess this is fine as an eventual fix. From the Debian side, we downgraded the plasma-workspace dependency on kde-cli-tools to a recommends to avoid the circular dependencies at build time till this is fixed. I assume this isn't the only reason to bump the qt dependency to 5.11. Is kde frameworks also planning to add a qt 5.11 dependency? Happy hacking,
No, KDE Frameworks will stay on the current current Qt minus two releases.
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