On Sat, 01 Nov 2025 22:06:45 +0100 Hefee wrote:
> Normally one would use virtual packages like plasma-abi-6.5 and all packages
> would depend on that, that would solve this issue. But this virtual package
> would need a real packages that provides this virtual package. But there is
> not this "central package" for plasma that would be natural to ship this
> virtual package. Okay when writing this I'm thinking, well why not create a
> dummy plasma package without any content that simply provides the virtual
> package without any file content. Did we already tried this one?
If that works, then sure! I always assumed that meta packages are intended to
solve these kind of problem, but if you think virtual package is a better approach,
then why not.
This issue is really hindering newcomers to Debian especially, and adds arguments to those
who don't recommend Debian testing to new users. Fixing it would really help making
Debian testing / KDE more user friendly.