Bug#858729: plasma-discover: too many bugs for the next stable

[Leand <leandswchoc@protonmail.com>]

Package: plasma-discover

Version: 5.8.5-3

Severity: grave

Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

The version of Discover provided in Stretch is too bugged and

immature, it is not suitable for a stable release. Please remove it or

provide a newer version.

There are basic functions that are bugged. For example, the search

function returns wrong and unrelated results too many times. If I

search for "office" or "writer" it doesn't show LibreOffice packages

or LibreOffice Writer at all. Furthermore in some cases it doesn't

even display the exact name of the packages in any way, for example

the package "file-roller" (Gnome's File Roller) is displayed as

"Archive manager".

Other issues: Discover doesn't display the dependencies of a package

and don't ask for confirmation when installing one; when removing an

application the confirmation dialog may display wrong info (search for

gimp, ask to remove it and the dialog will display xsane, bleachbit

and unrelated packages).

There are also issues with the interface but, simply, this application

is still immature and unreliable. It cannot be used for package

management.

-- System Information:

Debian Release: 9.0

  APT prefers testing

  APT policy: (500, 'testing')

Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)

Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages plasma-discover depends on:

ii  appstream                    0.10.6-1

ii  kio                          5.28.0-1

ii  libappstreamqt2              0.10.6-1

ii  libc6                        2.24-9

ii  libkf5archive5               5.28.0-1+b2

ii  libkf5attica5                5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5configcore5            5.28.0-1+b2

ii  libkf5configgui5             5.28.0-1+b2

ii  libkf5configwidgets5         5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5coreaddons5            5.28.0-1+b2

ii  libkf5crash5                 5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5dbusaddons5            5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5declarative5           5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5i18n5                  5.28.0-1+b2

ii  libkf5kiocore5               5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5kiowidgets5            5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5newstuff5              5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5notifications5         5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5service-bin            5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5service5               5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5widgetsaddons5         5.28.0-1

ii  libkf5xmlgui5                5.28.0-1

ii  libpackagekitqt5-0           0.9.6-1

ii  libqt5core5a                 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1

ii  libqt5dbus5                  5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1

ii  libqt5gui5                   5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1

ii  libqt5qml5                   5.7.1-2+b2

ii  libqt5quick5                 5.7.1-2+b2

ii  libqt5widgets5               5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1

ii  libqt5xml5                   5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1

ii  libstdc++6                   6.3.0-10

ii  packagekit                   1.1.5-2

ii  plasma-discover-common       5.8.5-3

ii  qml-module-org-kde-kirigami  1.1.0-1

Versions of packages plasma-discover recommends:

ii  software-properties-kde  0.96.20.2-1

plasma-discover suggests no packages.

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