In data giovedì 10 dicembre 2020 18:46:16 CET, Simon Frei ha scritto:

I understand the question as why is debian targeting 5.20 for the next
stable instead of 5.18 LTS. The answer is simple: LTS means 1.5 year of support, maybe more [1]. That's not long enough for the debian release
cycle: 5.18 was at the beginning of this year. That means support will
end at about the time or shortly after the next debian stable will be released.

[1] https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5#LTS_releases

Basically this.

Just compare the schedules of the Plasma LTS versions and the schedules
of the Debian releases (freeze + potential release), and you will find
out that the LTS will be out of support right before or shortly after
a Debian release.

There is no "conspiracy" or "will to ship a soon-unsupported Plasma
version in Debian" or anything like that. Simply put, upstream aligns
the Plasma LTS series to the Ubuntu LTS, so pretty much out of sync
with Debian releases.

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Pino Toscano
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