On 2020-11-09 4:04 a.m., Andy G Wood wrote:
I had the same problem this morning with testing.
My fix was to simply to back out the new libkdecorations2-5v5 :
debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 libkdecorations2-5v5 4:5.17.5-2
sudo dpkg -i libkdecorations2-5v5_5.17.5-2_amd64.deb
dpkg --get-selections \* | grep -P '^libkdecorations2-5v5' \
| sed -e 's/install/hold/' > libkdecorations2-5v5.hold
sudo dpkg --set-selections < libkdecorations2-5v5.hold
That was good enough to get things working for today!
Andy.
Along the way, I found another reason why I dislike Gnome: I have a 28" 4k monitor and running it with the default sizes for things make it too small for my old eyes. On Plasma I set things to 140% of normal size, which gives me more space while keeping things large enough. Gnome only accepts integer increments (100%, 200%, etc.) so it would make 4k the same as HD.
I'm disappointed that the package maintainers didn't notice that there was a dependency on a particular version of something. The .deb format allows for this to be specified, so this problem could have been prevented - the newer decoration package would have held until its dependency was met.