Hello,
Does anyone know the status of KDE packaging on Debian? I was unable to find the information anywhere. The KDE debian packager team seems completely dead. Is there a plan to have kde 5 any time soon? Or should I really consider installing kubuntu?
Thanks by advance,
Damien

Where did you see that the KDE debian packager team is dead ?
The team is hard at work... There is several resources to track its activity:
Mailing list https://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/
Home page http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/ (not updated but full of useful links)

BTW KDE 5 is in Debian unstable

Thank you for you're answer! I'm very happy to see kde 5 in unstable!
What is the reason why it took so much time? Lack of man power? stability problems? technical difficulties?
I can't find a page explaining the current status of work on alioth page,
and it does not seem to be up to date (speaks about KDE SC 4.11 in unstable and latest news is Aug 26, 2013).
A paragraph answering my questions on the main page would be welcome

I really think KDE would deserve more attention from the core Debian leaders, for example make possible to choose between KDE or Gnome during installation, in order to keep distribution neutrality. This wouldn't make installation more difficult, as many more complex questions are already asked.

Thanks to the packaging team anyway (who is not to be blamed).

What is the reason why it took so much time?

Work on Debian Jessie release.
And because moving to KDE 5 implie a lot of third parties libraries to be in Debian repository.

I can't find a page explaining the current status of work on alioth page,

As I said you need to browse the links on the left. The main resources are the git repository, the maintainers Q/A page and the mailing lists.

make possible to choose between KDE or Gnome during installation

Are you joking ? this is already possible for a very long time.

Thank you again for your reassuring answers!

brochard wrote:

I can't find a page explaining the current status of work on alioth page,

As I said you need to browse the links on the left. The main resources are the git repository, the maintainers Q/A page and the mailing lists.

Yes I see. but the page is not up to date (which makes think that the project is dead).

make possible to choose between KDE or Gnome during installation

Are you joking ? this is already possible for a very long time.

Not really (or I missed somthing - not installing Debian every day). As far as I can remember, everything is done to install Gnome by default. If you know nothing about Linux, you end up with Gnome. As this is a question of taste, and as it is easy for a beginner to have an opinion about this, one should provide a real choice (with, for example, screenshots or by installing both and asking when the user connects on the first time).