On a third thought, I think I'll just have the files we ship renamed. The thing is, by requiring a special tag in the .provider, it makes things harder for everyone while this is only a problem on *buntu.
If both KAccounts and UOA will show double Google accounts or whatever, I would put that as a toll of using multidesktop. My worry is that if we put the tag in all our providers and Ubuntu doesn't, it will only hamper KDE/KAccounts in the end as 3rd party providers would have to include that special tag only for KDE. Imho that is not worth it because of a file conflict in a single distribution. What we /can/ do in this situation is detect duplicate provider names and somehow display more info in that case, to make it clearer to the user which one is which. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to account-plugins in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540135 Title: Make this metapackage conflict with kaccounts-providers Status in account-plugins package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Anyone that tries to install Kubuntu-meta, or from Kubuntu tries to install Ubuntu-desktop, will hit conflicts with accounts-sso providers in /usr/share/accounts/providers (and possibly in service files in the future). As a result, many automatic bugs are being generated on both packages relating to this conflict in both directions, below are the most popular ones for each: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/account-plugins/+bug/1539988 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kaccounts-providers/+bug/1489507 kaccounts-providers is imported from Debian directly without repackaging and Debian does not package the Ubuntu account-plugins anywhere. Upstream KDE is being forced to break accounts-sso standards and impose systemwide envvars to work around that this package should conflict with KDE's: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347219 Either Ubuntu / Kubuntu should be amending the Debian package to make it conflict with these plugin packages when importing it, or the psmteam should make this package conflict with kaccounts-providers. The later would be less work, since account-plugins is only packaged in Ubuntu for Unity. This change is necessary in Wily and beyond since those are the releases shipping kaccounts-providers. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/account-plugins/+bug/1540135/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
