Bug#948274: KDE/Plasma version numbers in dependencies too lax
Package: kde-full
Version: 5:104
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
this bug report was originally intended to be a reply on #907301 [1],
#907416 [2], and #907696 [3], but those are already archived.
Bernhard Übelacker wrote:
> I hope closing this three bugs is ok, since this was just
> a temporary situation and resolved by plasma-framework
> migrating to testing several months ago.
Although the bug was made visible only by a temporary situation, the
actual (reason for the) bug still persists. I also stumbled over this
bug recently (and I guess not the first time) because I have not used
"apt upgrade" or "apt full-upgrade", but instead I have upgraded the
single package kde-full. (That's why I file the bug report on kde-full,
but the actual bug is distributed over several packages.)
I ended up in a totally broken KDE environment. Luckily I found the bug
reports mentioned above, and, even more luckily, most KDE/Plasma
libraries/programs share the same version numbers. So I solved most[4]
of the broken KDE upgrade by launching aptitude and upgrading all
packages with these version numbers.
However, my point is: the version numbers in the dependencies are wrong.
They possibly are not wrong in the meaning that it would not *compile*,
but they are wrong in the meaning that it does not *run correctly*.
If (for some reasons I don't understand) the version numbers cannot be
fixed in the Depends relationship, can they at least be correct (in case
of doubt simply >= the matching version number) in the Recommends
relationship?
Thank you.
Stephan
References and Footnotes.
1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907301
2. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907416
3. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907696
4. Some desktop effects like animations when changing the virtual
desktop still do not work.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages kde-full depends on:
ii kde-plasma-desktop 5:104
ii kde-standard 5:104
ii kdeadmin 4:17.08.3+5.102
ii kdeedu 4:17.08.3+5.104
ii kdegames 4:17.08.3+5.102
ii kdegraphics 4:17.08.3+5.104
ii kdemultimedia 4:17.08.3+5.102
ii kdenetwork 4:17.08.3+5.104
ii kdepim 4:17.12.3+5.104
ii kdeutils 4:17.08.3+5.102
ii plasma-workspace-wallpapers 4:5.14.5-1
Versions of packages kde-full recommends:
ii kdeaccessibility 4:17.08.3+5.102
ii kdesdk 4:17.08.3+5.102
ii kdetoys 4:17.08.3+5.102
ii kdewebdev 4:17.08.3+5.102
Versions of packages kde-full suggests:
pn calligra <none>
ii xorg 1:7.7+19
-- no debconf information
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