Source: plasma-discover
Version: 6.7.4-2
Severity: serious
Tags: patch trixie forky
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Dear Maintainer,

The package plasma-discover Recommends the non-existent package
software-properties-qt in debian 13 (stable, trixie) and debian testing.

This is a violation of point 2.2.1 of debian policy[1]:

"""
Every package in main must comply with the DFSG (Debian Free Software 
Guidelines).

In addition, the packages in main

must not require or recommend a package outside of main for compilation
or execution (thus, the package must not declare a Pre-Depends, Depends,
**Recommends**, Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, or Build-Depends-Arch
relationship on a non-main package unless that package is only listed as
a non-default alternative for a package in main),
"""

plasma-discover is in the main part of the archive,
software-properties-qt is not in the main part of the archive, it is not
in stable nor testing.

Please remove the dependency, patch attached.

Thanks.

[1] 
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-main-archive-area
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ Recommends: apt-config-icons-hidpi,
             apt-config-icons-large-hidpi,
             kde-config-updates,
             plasma-discover-backend-fwupd [linux-any],
-            software-properties-qt,
 Suggests: plasma-discover-backend-flatpak [linux-any],
           plasma-discover-backend-snap [linux-any],
 Description: Discover software management suite

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