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has caused the Debian Bug report #1042821,
regarding Installing libkf5purpose5 (indirectly) brings in kdeconnect package,
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Package: qml-module-org-kde-purpose
Severity: normal
Version: 5.107.0-1
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Dear Debian KDE/Plasma package maintainers,
I know it is not be a pleasant bug, but I believe the current behavior
of package qml-module-org-kde-purpose and libkf5purpose5 is a little bit
tricky since installing either of them will bring in package kde-connect by
default, which may be undesirable. Details below:
* Installing okular will brings in kde-connect (!) by default, which may be
unfavorable. Reason:
-> % LC_ALL=C aptitude why kdeconnect
i okular Depends libkf5purpose5 (>= 5.68.0~)
i A libkf5purpose5 Recommends qml-module-org-kde-purpose (=
5.107.0-1)
i A qml-module-org-kde-purpose Recommends kdeconnect
* It is caused by
https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/purpose/-/commit/1ba9a778588bf66250fd079e674c2c96abd50991
in 2016, which already tries to downgrade hard dependency to recommendation,
but obviously did not work.
* There was a later 2020 attempt to avoid such behavior by Pino at
https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/purpose/-/commit/b107335c579e3576a109515a37f277b54e4627d6
, yet the behavior of qml-module-org-kde-purpose invalidated this effort. See
previous "aptitude why" result.
As such, I believe b107335c was an insufficient fix. Package qml-module-org-
kde-purpose should further demote recommendation of kde-connect to suggestion.
While this may not be an ideal fix, please let me know if you have further
thoughts. Thanks!
Best,
Boyuan Yang
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Version: 5.116.0-1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package purpose has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1129424
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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