New in Kubuntu Backports PPA

[jglen490]

So, are you also mildly annoyed that the repos self-identify as "ubuntu"

[Don B. Cilly]

Yes, it's off-topic. Not a big deal unless we make it one. I mean, it's still about Kubuntu, it's the Soapbox...
I'll just doctor my conky like I've always done and all good.

I still find it mildly annoying that lsb_release reports Ubuntu 20.04, that's all

[Schwarzer Kater]

Still off topic:

I think you didn't understand what I tried to say - sorry for not being clear enough:
I changed GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR because of lsb_release. The information of lsb_release is fetched by /etc/default/grub and used to make the first entry in the GRUB menu otherwise. Which would be: Ubuntu … :-)

[Don B. Cilly]

Yeah well...
I put
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Kubuntu 20.04 LTS"
in /etc/default/grub.
Updated grub. Rebooted.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

[Schwarzer Kater]

Off topic:

E.g. on my laptop to something like "Kubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (on /dev/sda4)", as this usually is my main Linux OS there and writes GRUB to the boot drive.

You can put in there whatever you like (and I suppose there are much more sophisticated ways to do that than simply putting the text you want to show in the GRUB menu within quotation marks…).

[Don B. Cilly]

I always tend to change GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR in /etc/default/grub for that reason.

To... what?

[Schwarzer Kater]

[…]
A couple of quips:
a) Everyone says, to add the backports, you
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
then
sudo apt update
But you don't have to sudo apt update, do you? ;·) Add-apt-repository does that for you anyway... :·)

b) Am I the only one who finds it mildly annoying that lsb_release reports Ubuntu 20.04? :·) […]

Off topic, of course ;-D :

a) I think you are absolutely right. But you can read otherwise everywhere. :-D

b) No, you are not! I always tend to change GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR in /etc/default/grub for that reason. :-D

PS:
To be slightly more on topic and to say something about your question in post #5.

I have only been using Kubuntu permanently since 16.04 / 18.04 beta - since early 2018 that is (in private life I have used macOS a lot and openSUSE occasionally for the 25 to 30 years before that).
But I have used the Kubuntu backports PPA since 18.04 (also on production systems) and I have never had any problems with it.
Hopefully someone who is a lot more experienced than me will answer your question eventually…

[Don B. Cilly]

Oh well. I just tried, didn't I :·)

After adding the repo, the upgradable list only went from about 10 to about 50. (I have the text if anyone's interested).
So I upgraded. Rebooted. Now I have:

Neon:


K20.04 without backports:


K20.04 with backports:


So neon is still slightly ahead in terms of Qt and frameworks.
And backporting just made Plasma go up one dot (equal to neon), Qt and FWs the same.

[EDIT] A couple of quips:
a) Everyone says, to add the backports, you
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
then
sudo apt update
But you don't have to sudo apt update, do you? ;·) Add-apt-repository does that for you anyway... :·)

b) Am I the only one who finds it mildly annoying that lsb_release reports Ubuntu 20.04? :·)

[Don B. Cilly]

So... should one add the backports in 20.04? (Yes, it depends on "one's" needs an preferences, but)...
Pros and cons? (Yes, I realise there's a ton of posts - here and elsewhere - on the subject, but)... to summarise?

[Beerislife]

I was pleased to see that too. I already had it in Neon but had been distro hopping before settling on 20.04! Looking forward to the next Neon!

[Schwarzer Kater]

Well, they did put newer versions in the backports PPA for both 18.04 LTS and 19.10.

I guess that entirely depends on how much time they have on their hands and how much fun it is for them to play with KDE Frameworks…

I am sure the Kubuntu community would appreciate it.

[oldgeek]

Does that mean that KDE Frameworks will be similarly upgraded through the backports repository?

[Schwarzer Kater]

I had just applied sudo apt update and there was a newer Plasma in the PPA: 5.18.5!

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+...s_filter=focal

After already bringing us more recent versions of Elisa, Kdenlive, KStars, Okular, Spectacle and Yakuake end of April, today it was the current Plasma. :-)

Thank you very, very much for your work - I am looking forward to keeping the KDE parts of Kubuntu 20.04 LTS up to date for the next years!

PS: Dear Admins - if this is the wrong sub-forum, please move me…