On 2016-04-04 15:02, Leonhard Weber wrote:
Based on your explanation I proceeded to do some more digging...
You're right, qgis does everything properly:
dpkg -L qgis
[...]
diverted by qgis-plugin-grass to: /usr/bin/qgis.bin *<<
qgis-plugin-grass plugin diverts /usr/bin/qgis leaving the qgis.desktop
dangling*
/usr/bin/qbrowser
diverted by qgis-plugin-grass to: /usr/bin/qbrowser.bin *<<
qgis-plugin-grass plugin diverts it /usr/bin/qbrowser the
qbrowser.desktop dangling*
This left me with an unusable .desktop (in GNOME it does not even
appear
anymore, it seems to check if it points to a valid executable), which
ended in users calling me up asking "where their qgis went".
qgis draws qgis-plugin-grass automatically as it is categorized as
"recomended" dependency. Fortunately no one I know at my workplace uses
it, so manually removing it solves my specific problem. It does mean
though, that qgis-plugin-grass currently breaks the qgis package.
It may be reasonable to conclude that this is just an unintended
duplicate or at least related to #817176.
It's definitely not a duplicate, #817176 is about upgrade failure
because the diversions were not removed properly in 2.14. The QGIS 2.8
backport still uses the diversions, and as long as we can't switch to
Qt5 we can't resolve the RC bug that is preventing further backport
updates.
GNOME should work with the diverted binaries too, the shell script
wrappers installed as /usr/bin/{qgis,qbrowser} are valid executables
too.
If the shell wrappers are missing, you need to troubleshoot the
upgrade/installation procedure to see what happened.
Kind Regards,
Bas
