I've just clicked "Upgrade" on plasma-discover and almost all of
Plasma and KDE Apps suite has been silently removed from my PC -
including plasma-discover itself.
I cannot install it back right now, as some packages require KF
dependences in version 5.26, while others are stuck at 5.25.
So I'm w
Thanks.
Another scenario to consider is a user that doesn't know any better enables a
poorly maintained third party repository that contains conflicting packages
that cause large numbers of removals.
This can happen post-release and is a scenario the user base you're targeting
is particularly
Discover is for end-users with no technical knowledge. Showing extra
dialog boxes with crazy text won't help and just be visual clitter,
since people will press "Yes" anyway. Also, Discover isn't really to
blame for the underlying problem, which is a busted archive, something
that never happens in
On September 24, 2016 3:02:28 PM EDT, Diederik de Haas
wrote:
>Control: reopen -1
>
>On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:52:33 +0100 Chris Lamb wrote:
>> > [plasma-discover] plasma-discover uninstalls packages during
>upgrades
>> > without asking for confirmation>
>> This is due to the ongoing Perl migrat
Processing control commands:
> found -1 5.7.3-1
Bug #838734 [plasma-discover] [plasma-discover] plasma-discover uninstalls
packages during upgrades without asking for confirmation
Marked as found in versions plasma-discover/5.7.3-1.
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838734: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?
Control: found -1 5.7.3-1
On zaterdag 24 september 2016 21:02:28 CEST Diederik de Haas wrote:
> So this happened on 24th of August and then the perl migration wasn't
> happening, thus reopening the bug.
As 5.7.4-1 was uploaded on 26th of August, my version was thus 5.7.3-1,
marking this bug as
Control: reopen -1
On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:52:33 +0100 Chris Lamb wrote:
> > [plasma-discover] plasma-discover uninstalls packages during upgrades
> > without asking for confirmation>
> This is due to the ongoing Perl migration. There was a mail sent to
> debian-devel-announce but I believe it wa
On zaterdag 24 september 2016 20:02:42 CEST JanKusanagi wrote:
> The thing is, a user upgrading with this program, might end up
> destroying their system. I'd consider this 'grave'.
Not just 'might', the one time I tried/used it, it removed plasma-desktop,
sddm and a couple of more essential KDE
>From what I see, the real problem here is that plasma-discover's
"upgrade" functionality is acting like a "aptitude full-upgrade",
removing whatever's necessary, possible removing half your system,
instead of acting like a "aptitude safe-upgrade", which would hold the
problematic packages, and no
On September 24, 2016 1:00:21 PM EDT, Matthias Klumpp
wrote:
>2016-09-24 18:36 GMT+02:00 Ximo Baldó :
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA512
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>> No. Precisely, the bug I'm reporting is that the package manager,
>plasma-discover, does not warn user about his intention to do tha
2016-09-24 18:36 GMT+02:00 Ximo Baldó :
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA512
>
> No. Precisely, the bug I'm reporting is that the package manager,
> plasma-discover, does not warn user about his intention to do that removing
> operation. So, the user never has notice about these
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA512
No. Precisely, the bug I'm reporting is that the package manager,
plasma-discover, does not warn user about his intention to do that removing
operation. So, the user never has notice about these changes and as far I know
this situation can be co
Ximo Baldó i Soriano wrote:
> So... The ongoing Perl migration causes plasma-discover (or its backend) to
> bypass user's decision to deinstall 347 packages from his system?
There is no bypassing -- your package manager would have declared its
intention to remove all those packages.
Regards,
El dissabte, 24 de setembre de 2016, a les 15:52:33 CEST, Chris Lamb va
escriure:
> Hi,
>
> > [plasma-discover] plasma-discover uninstalls packages during upgrades
> > without asking for confirmation
> This is due to the ongoing Perl migration. There was a mail sent to
> debian-devel-announce but
Package: plasma-discover
Version: 5.7.4-1
Severity: grave
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On my system running debian sid was, since last upgrade, 4 packages related to
perl blocked due to dependencies. Tonight, just did an upgrade from plasma-
discover and the result was a larg
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