Bug#815670: kalarm: Some KDE applications do not autorstart properly

[Alex Henry <tukkek@gmail.com>]

Package: kalarm
Version: 4:4.14.10-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I am having trouble with some KDE applications and their start-up process. After reporting a KDE bug
they told me it was likely to be a Debian issue. I agrre that it could very well be the case, if so
more likely a missing dependency or incorrect minimum version dependency on some KDE packages.

The bug report starts as a more specific problem but we eventually figured out it'a wider issue. We came
down to this error message as the culprit:

kalarmautostart(14710) AutostartApp::slotAutostart: No command line

The full bug report can be found here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358027

I am tagging this as a grave bug because if the applications are supposed to be automatically
run at login and they aren't it could render them unusable to a normal user. Luckily I have
the knowledge to set up some scripts to deal with it in my own system.

This is probably a wider KDE issue, not only kdepim's or kalarm's so let me know if
this should be reported elsewhere and if I can help with further information or testing.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages kalarm depends on:
ii  kde-runtime             4:15.08.3-1+b1
ii  kdepim-runtime          4:4.14.10-2
ii  kdepimlibs-kio-plugins  4:4.14.10-1
ii  libakonadi-contact4     4:4.14.10-1
ii  libakonadi-kde4         4:4.14.10-1
ii  libakonadi-kmime4       4:4.14.10-1
ii  libc6                   2.21-9
ii  libgcc1                 1:5.3.1-8
ii  libkabc4                4:4.14.10-1
ii  libkalarmcal2           4:4.14.10-1
ii  libkcalcore4            4:4.14.10-1
ii  libkcalutils4           4:4.14.10-1
ii  libkdecore5             4:4.14.14-1+b1
ii  libkdepim4              4:4.14.10-2
ii  libkdeui5               4:4.14.14-1+b1
ii  libkholidays4           4:4.14.10-1
ii  libkio5                 4:4.14.14-1+b1
ii  libkmime4               4:4.14.10-1
ii  libkpimidentities4      4:4.14.10-1
ii  libkpimutils4           4:4.14.10-1
ii  libmailtransport4       4:4.14.10-1
ii  libphonon4              4:4.8.3-2
ii  libqt4-dbus             4:4.8.7+dfsg-6
ii  libqt4-network          4:4.8.7+dfsg-6
ii  libqtcore4              4:4.8.7+dfsg-6
ii  libqtgui4               4:4.8.7+dfsg-6
ii  libstdc++6              5.3.1-8
ii  libx11-6                2:1.6.3-1
ii  perl                    5.22.1-7
ii  phonon                  4:4.8.3-2

kalarm recommends no packages.

Versions of packages kalarm suggests:
pn  jovie  <none>

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