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Bug#854838: kde-full: When kde-full is installed, upgrading from jessie to stretch is extremely hard (if not impossible for beginners)



Package: kde-full
Version: 5:92
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Hi,

This bug only appears when upgrading a jessie system to stretch, but is a
release blocker at least w/ amd64 arch with foreign i386 arch enabled.

As per documentation, dist upgrade from jessie to stretch should work as
follows :
1/ update sources.list
2/ apt update
3/ apt upgrade
4/ apt dist-upgrade

The issue actually lies at the apt upgrade step, as it is reported that package
kdepimlibs-data breaks several other packages, so the upgrade cannot be
performed.

So then you have either to attempt to fix manually the issue, or with a dist-
upgrade, but in both situations the result is the same : the situation becomes
completely messy, with many broken packages you have to fix manually with dpkg
commands. It is not impossible to run the upgrade this way, but anyway it is
painful.

Steps to reproduce :
DO : install jessie with kde-full metapackage
DO : upgrade to stretch
EXPECT : upgrade runs fine
ACTUAL : upgrade is broken

Note : if you cannot reproduce the issue this way, try to upgrade libreoffice
from bpo (this might be the cause, but I have serious doubt about this).



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages kde-full depends on:
ii  kde-plasma-desktop  5:92
ii  kde-standard        5:92
ii  kdeadmin            4:16.04.0+5.92
ii  kdeartwork          4:15.08.3-2
ii  kdeedu              4:16.04.0+5.92
ii  kdegames            4:16.04.0+5.92
ii  kdegraphics         4:16.04.0+5.92
ii  kdemultimedia       4:16.04.0+5.92
ii  kdenetwork          4:16.04.0+5.92
ii  kdepim              4:16.04.3-3
ii  kdeutils            4:16.04.0+5.92

Versions of packages kde-full recommends:
ii  kdeaccessibility  4:16.04.0+5.92
ii  kdesdk            4:16.04.0+5.92
ii  kdetoys           4:16.04.0+5.92
pn  kdewebdev         <none>

Versions of packages kde-full suggests:
ii  calligra                1:2.9.11+dfsg-4
ii  kde-l10n-fr [kde-l10n]  4:16.04.3-1
ii  xorg                    1:7.7+18

-- no debconf information


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