Simon Frei - 10.12.20, 18:46:16 CET: > 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.
Basically as far as I am aware Debian Qt/KDE team never actually cared about that a Plasma LTS release would be used. In the end, critical fixes could be forward- or backported from an LTS release to whatever version Debian stable will have. And after end of LTS, a forward- or backport of a fix would be needed anyway. Also AFAIR this has been discussed here or on another Debian KDE related mailing list before. Best, -- Martin