[opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed - Review of the Week 2015/36 - openSUSE Factory

4 Sep 2015

      Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

I think summer holiday is still there, we 'only' had three snapshots
this week :)

In Tumbleweed, the biggest changes for this week are:
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* Perl 5.22 is released. This was a long lasting effort in stagings,
and many packages needed to be fixed. And as many of you realized,
there is still a lot not working (packages that are not part of the
test coverage). Good candidates to look up here can be found at:
https://goo.gl/iIRxHI

* Plasma 5.4 has been checked in to openSUSE:Factory, but there is not
yet a Tumbleweed release available. One issue identified is that the
Plasma desktop now wants to require 'catdoc', which is a Tk/Tcl app.
Tcl/Tk adds considerable to the size of the LiveCDs and they explode...
The KDE Team promised to change the dependency to catdoc to a pure
recommendation instead of a requirement... then we should be able to
pass on here again.

* RPM is newly linked against liblua5.3 instead of the outdated
liblua5.1.

What is pending for Tumbleweed
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* systemd. I wish I could finally take this off the list, but progress
seems rather slow with getting the needed fixes together. I blame the
good weather and still partially holiday season. NEvertheless, just
today we have received an additional fix that might finally solve the
issues.

* libQt 5.5.0 is also still pending as it breaks libyui-qt. I *think*
the yast team fixed this in git, but apparenly nobody submitted the fix
to openSUSE:Factory; that's where we'd need though.

* KDE Applications 15.08.0 are being staged and tested.

* An update to NCurses 6.0 is pending (
https://build.opensuse.org/project/staging_projects/openSUSE:Factory/A 
). There are a couple failures as a consequence here. Help is welcome
to get the rest fixed.

* Kernel 4.2 is also pending in a staging. This might be a 'tricky'
update especially for users of the NVidia binary blob. Once this hits
the repos, those users might want to block this kernel for now.

Cheers,
Dominique
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[opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed - Review of the Week 2015/36

Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar

Robert Munteanu

Bruno Friedmann

Larry Finger

Jiri Slaby

Jimmy Berry

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