Package: qml-module-org-kde-purpose Severity: normal Version: 5.107.0-1 X-Debbugs-CC: coucouf@debian.org pino@debian.org Dear Debian KDE/Plasma package maintainers, I know it is not be a pleasant bug, but I believe the current behavior of package qml-module-org-kde-purpose and libkf5purpose5 is a little bit tricky since installing either of them will bring in package kde-connect by default, which may be undesirable. Details below: * Installing okular will brings in kde-connect (!) by default, which may be unfavorable. Reason: -> % LC_ALL=C aptitude why kdeconnect i okular Depends libkf5purpose5 (>= 5.68.0~) i A libkf5purpose5 Recommends qml-module-org-kde-purpose (= 5.107.0-1) i A qml-module-org-kde-purpose Recommends kdeconnect * It is caused by https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/purpose/-/commit/1ba9a778588bf66250fd079e674c2c96abd50991 in 2016, which already tries to downgrade hard dependency to recommendation, but obviously did not work. * There was a later 2020 attempt to avoid such behavior by Pino at https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/purpose/-/commit/b107335c579e3576a109515a37f277b54e4627d6 , yet the behavior of qml-module-org-kde-purpose invalidated this effort. See previous "aptitude why" result. As such, I believe b107335c was an insufficient fix. Package qml-module-org- kde-purpose should further demote recommendation of kde-connect to suggestion. While this may not be an ideal fix, please let me know if you have further thoughts. Thanks! Best, Boyuan Yang
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