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Bug#835480: ksnapshot: Ensure proper transition to kde-spectacle



Hi,

>> A simple binNMU would probably fix this, but ksnapshot has been
>> replaced by kde-spectacle anyway. So I think the best way forward
>> would for kde-spectacle to Break/Replace ksnapshot and then drop
>> ksnapshot from testing.
> 
> I not seeing how this could be fixed with a binNMU. Afaics, we could
> either disable the kipi support in ksnapshot, drop ksnapshot adding the
> breaks/replaces (that means that users will need to manually install
> kde-spectacle, kdegraphics or kde-standard), or provide a transitional
> package in kde-spectacle to replace ksnapshot.

You're right. I was somehow assuming that the bindeps were the result of
a SONAME package change, but it is another -dev package altogether.
Maybe ksnapshot would build just fine against libkf5kipi-dev, but I
think a transitional package is the way forward here.

> In any case, ksnapshot reverse dependencies need to be updated (we can't
> drop ksnapshot without doing this first, and it's still an important
> step even if we provide a transitional package), currently, the only
> reverse dependency that needs to be updated is education-desktop-kde.
> 
> I'll add the transitional package to ksnapshot, could you take care of
> sending the bug report to education-desktop-kde? (please cc the
> debian-qt-kde mailing list).

Filed, #835511

Bernhard


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