Bug#1017611: discover: Discover stucks because fwupd is not installed

[Aurélien COUDERC <libre@coucouf.fr>]

control: reassign -1 plasma-discover
control: tags -1 + moreinfo

Dear Mando,

I guess you're talking about Discover the software management tool for KDE/Plasma, not the hardware discovery tool, so I'm reassigning the bug to the plasma-discover package.



Le 18 août 2022 13:39:30 GMT+02:00, mando <mando@april.org> a écrit :
>Package: discover
>Version: 2.1.2-10
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>I tried to update my Debian through Discover.
>I've enabled the contrib and non-free repository as I require some firmware and non-free drivers (wifi, video cards) for a long time.
>Since recent updates of KDE, Discover stucks when updating the package list and complains because fwupd is not installed.
>Installing fwupd solves the problem:
>
>	apt install fwupd-amd64-signed
>
>... but I guess that Discover should work even if this package is not installed.

Yes it definitely should work without it.

Could you try and remove fwupd again but also ensure plasma-discover-backend-fwup is not installed ?

Having a look at the dependency/recommends chain it looks possible to have the later installed without the former and maybe that could explain your issue.


Thanks !
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Aurélien