For the record, KDE Telepathy has a new upstream maintainer meanwhile: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2019-March/095117.html This should address the concerns that it might be abandoned I hope. And therefore I also see no (good) reason to hold it back anymore, so I'm really going to resubmit the packages to Factory shortly (tomorrow, probably...). @Luca: I understand that you don't want to have them updated "automatically" as part of the other KDE:Applications packages, or does the above change your opinion on that too? I'll definitely can keep on doing it myself though. (I do have a script for that ;-) )