[Bug 1579436] [NEW] Version mismatch between kdeconnect and kdeconnect-plasma in Ubuntu Xenial; kdeconnect severely outdated.

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Public bug reported:

I was trying to synchronize my phone with my desktop using KDE Connect,
and neither device could see the other. After a bunch of
troubleshooting, I looked at the version numbers... Only to find that
the version of 'kdeconnect' that Ubuntu Xenial packages is the same as
what Wily packages - which is a version first published 2015-02-04, over
a year ago (https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdeconnect-
kde.git&a=tag&t=v0.8).

Now, I would be mostly alright with this, as I know packaging everything
up is time consuming and things slip through the cracks. However, the
version of kdeconnect-plasma shipped with Xenial is indicated as
0.9+git20160315. If that end bit is indeed a date (and I'm quite sure it
is), that means it's in fact newer than even the most recent stable
version (0.9g, released 2016-01-02 https://quickgit.kde.org/?p
=kdeconnect-kde.git&a=tag&t=v0.9g)!

Here on Launchpad, Debian Sid has version 0.9g of kdeconnect packaged,
and it was packaged on 2016-02-06
(https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/kdeconnect). That was before the
'Debian Import Freeze' on 2016-02-18 according to the Xenial release
schedule (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule), so it
should have been imported then - not copied from Wily.

I'm not going to mark this as a bug for 'kdeconnect-plasma', as I
believe it is correct for it to be a recent build. What's also odd is
that within KDE's git repository, I can only find the plasmoid for
kdeconnect as part of the same codebase as the rest of kdeconnect
itself. So how these two aren't packaged together (or at least have the
same source package/version number) is beyond me.

** Affects: kdeconnect (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: android android-integration integration kdeconnect kdeconnect-plasma

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  Xenial; kdeconnect severely outdated.

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