Bug#861495: plasma-discover: recommend apt-config-auto-update instead of software-properties-kde
Package: plasma-discover
Version: 5.8.5-3
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
plasma-discover recommends software-properties-kde, a package that allows via
GUI to:
- manage the entries in the sources.list
- set periodic update and automatic upgrades
- opt in/out from the popularity contest
However the software-properties-* packages still have important and old bugs
unresolved that undermine the user experience and, by default, do not enable
automatic updates when installed.
A better alternative could be the installation of plasma-discover with
apt-config-auto-update instead, which provides "configuration snippets for the
Apt package manager to have it automatically update its package cache".
In this way:
- the sources.list can still be managed using plasma-discover directly
- automatic updates are enabled by default
Despite the lack of a couple of features provided by software-properties-kde,
this configuration could be better for a basic installation.
Regards
-- 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 0.10.6-2
ii kio 5.28.0-2
ii libappstreamqt2 0.10.6-2
ii libc6 2.24-10
ii libkf5archive5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5attica5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5configcore5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5configgui5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5configwidgets5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5crash5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5dbusaddons5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5declarative5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5i18n5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5kiocore5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5kiowidgets5 5.28.0-2
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 5.28.0-2
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 6.3.0-14
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:
pn software-properties-kde <none>
plasma-discover suggests no packages.
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