Bug#838734: [plasma-discover] plasma-discover uninstalls packages during upgrades without asking for confirmation
On September 24, 2016 3:02:28 PM EDT, Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> wrote:
>Control: reopen -1
>
>On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:52:33 +0100 Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
>> > [plasma-discover] plasma-discover uninstalls packages during
>upgrades
>> > without asking for confirmation>
>> This is due to the ongoing Perl migration. There was a mail sent to
>> debian-devel-announce but I believe it was unfortunately blocked.
>>
>> I'm closing your bug as this is not an issue that can be resolved by
>> plasma-discover, alas. :(
>
>From my #debian-qt-kde logs:
>[27.08 01:43] <diederik> plasma-discover is a giant piece of junk and
>imo
>should be removed from every meta package
>[27.08 01:43] <diederik> /rant
>[27.08 01:45] <diederik> for a change I used it's function and did
>happily
>uninstall plasma-desktop, plasma-workspace, sddm and a number of other
>essential programs
>[27.08 01:45] <diederik> without any warning that is. Trying to fix it
>with
>aptitude seems to be a no go as it's not able to resolve conflicts
>[27.08 01:45] <diederik> I have _never_ seen/happen that before
>
>So this happened on 24th of August and then the perl migration wasn't
>happening, thus reopening the bug.
In any case, the message about the Perl migration said not to file bugs about package uninstallability. That's not what this bug is about.
This bug is about lack of user visibility when discover removes packages and the consequent risk of inappropriate removals causing system problems.
I do agree that as long as this is the case it's questionable is it's suitable for the default KDE install. I'm not completely convinced it's suitable to be in the archive at all.
Scott K
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