[lubuntu-devel] [Bug 1635801] Re: lxqt uninstalled network-manager and plasma-nm

Jeremy Bicha jeremy at bicha.net
Fri Jan 27 12:39:20 UTC 2017 

** Description changed:

  Impact
  ======
  Kubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 users who try to install 'lxqt' will have network-manager uninstalled. This is needlessly disruptive since network-manager should work fine and users may have already configured their networks with network-manager.
  
  Test Case
  =========
  From Kubuntu, run
  sudo apt install lxqt
  
  Does apt say that it will remove network-manager?
  
  Regression Potential
  ====================
  Low. Maybe cmst integrates better with lxqt?
  
  Other Info
  ==========
  'lxqt' is the metapackage from Debian. For 16.10 and newer, it is recommended to install lubuntu-qt-desktop instead.
  
  lxqt 4 recommends cmst. cmst depends on connman. network-manager
  conflicts with connman. This bug does not affect Ubuntu (Unity) where
  apt does not install cmst despite the recommends. I think the reason
  that it works in Ubuntu (Unity) is because Ubuntu (Unity) depends on
  indicator-network which depends on network-manager. Kubuntu only
  recommends plasma-nm which depends on network-manager. Because it was
- only a recommends, apt is happy to remove plasma-nm to fulfill the new
- cmst recommends.
+ only a recommends, I think apt is happy to remove plasma-nm to fulfill
+ the new cmst recommends.
  
  Original Bug Report
  ===================
  In order to test lxqt from the official repos I installed the package named "lxqt".
  This is what happened:
  
  [enzo at Feynman ~] sudo apt-get install lxqt
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following additional packages will be installed:
    audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data cmst compton compton-conf connman gnome-user-guide gucharmap libaudcore3 libaudgui3 libaudtag2 libbinio1v5 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libc-ares2
    libconfig9 libcue1 libfluidsynth1 libfm-data libfm-extra4 libfm-gtk-data libfm-gtk4 libfm-modules libfm-qt2 libfm4 libgail18 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0
    libgnomeui-common libgucharmap-2-90-7 libguess1 libjpeg-progs libjpeg9 liblxqt-globalkeys-ui0 liblxqt-globalkeys0 libmenu-cache-bin libmenu-cache3 libmms0 liboobs-1-5 libsdl2-2.0-0 libsidplayfp4 libsndio6.1
    libstatgrab10 libsysstat-qt5-0 libxcb-screensaver0 libyelp0 lximage-qt lxmenu-data lxqt-about lxqt-admin lxqt-common lxqt-config lxqt-core lxqt-globalkeys lxqt-openssh-askpass lxqt-panel lxqt-policykit
    lxqt-powermanagement lxqt-qtplugin lxqt-runner lxqt-sudo obconf-qt ofono pcmanfm-qt qlipper qpdfview qpdfview-djvu-plugin qpdfview-ps-plugin qpdfview-translations qps screengrab smplayer smplayer-l10n
    smplayer-themes smtube system-tools-backends xarchiver xscreensaver xscreensaver-data yelp yelp-xsl
  Suggested packages:
    indicator-network libfm-tools nautilus-actions sidplayfp sndiod calibre juffed nomacs qtpass quassel | quassel-client trojita | claws-mail vokoscreen zim arj lhasa rar rpm unar xfishtank xdaliclock
    xscreensaver-gl fortune qcam | streamer gdm3 | kdm-gdmcompat
  Recommended packages:
    perl5
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    network-manager plasma-nm
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data cmst compton compton-conf connman gnome-user-guide gucharmap libaudcore3 libaudgui3 libaudtag2 libbinio1v5 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libc-ares2
    libconfig9 libcue1 libfluidsynth1 libfm-data libfm-extra4 libfm-gtk-data libfm-gtk4 libfm-modules libfm-qt2 libfm4 libgail18 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0
    libgnomeui-common libgucharmap-2-90-7 libguess1 libjpeg-progs libjpeg9 liblxqt-globalkeys-ui0 liblxqt-globalkeys0 libmenu-cache-bin libmenu-cache3 libmms0 liboobs-1-5 libsdl2-2.0-0 libsidplayfp4 libsndio6.1
    libstatgrab10 libsysstat-qt5-0 libxcb-screensaver0 libyelp0 lximage-qt lxmenu-data lxqt lxqt-about lxqt-admin lxqt-common lxqt-config lxqt-core lxqt-globalkeys lxqt-openssh-askpass lxqt-panel lxqt-policykit
    lxqt-powermanagement lxqt-qtplugin lxqt-runner lxqt-sudo obconf-qt ofono pcmanfm-qt qlipper qpdfview qpdfview-djvu-plugin qpdfview-ps-plugin qpdfview-translations qps screengrab smplayer smplayer-l10n
    smplayer-themes smtube system-tools-backends xarchiver xscreensaver xscreensaver-data yelp yelp-xsl
  0 upgraded, 86 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 22,5 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 105 MB of additional disk space will be used.
  
  This means that network-manager and plasma-nm are to be uninstalled.
  I have been left with my KDE system without connectivity even before logging out of the KDE session and logging into the LxQt one.
  LxQt doesn't recommend connman, but it's a dependency.
  Thus LxQt cannot run along with KDE and this is to be made clear to users.
  As an option, connman is to be made an option, not a mandatory bit.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: lxqt (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-lowlatency 4.4.19
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Sat Oct 22 10:21:11 2016
  SourcePackage: lxqt-metapackages
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Title:
  lxqt  uninstalled network-manager and plasma-nm

Status in lxqt-metapackages package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in lxqt-metapackages source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in lxqt-metapackages source package in Yakkety:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Impact
  ======
  Kubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 users who try to install 'lxqt' will have network-manager uninstalled. This is needlessly disruptive since network-manager should work fine and users may have already configured their networks with network-manager.

  Test Case
  =========
  From Kubuntu, run
  sudo apt install lxqt

  Does apt say that it will remove network-manager?

  Regression Potential
  ====================
  Low. Maybe cmst integrates better with lxqt?

  Other Info
  ==========
  'lxqt' is the metapackage from Debian. For 16.10 and newer, it is recommended to install lubuntu-qt-desktop instead.

  lxqt 4 recommends cmst. cmst depends on connman. network-manager
  conflicts with connman. This bug does not affect Ubuntu (Unity) where
  apt does not install cmst despite the recommends. I think the reason
  that it works in Ubuntu (Unity) is because Ubuntu (Unity) depends on
  indicator-network which depends on network-manager. Kubuntu only
  recommends plasma-nm which depends on network-manager. Because it was
  only a recommends, I think apt is happy to remove plasma-nm to fulfill
  the new cmst recommends.

  Original Bug Report
  ===================
  In order to test lxqt from the official repos I installed the package named "lxqt".
  This is what happened:

  [enzo at Feynman ~] sudo apt-get install lxqt
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following additional packages will be installed:
    audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data cmst compton compton-conf connman gnome-user-guide gucharmap libaudcore3 libaudgui3 libaudtag2 libbinio1v5 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libc-ares2
    libconfig9 libcue1 libfluidsynth1 libfm-data libfm-extra4 libfm-gtk-data libfm-gtk4 libfm-modules libfm-qt2 libfm4 libgail18 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0
    libgnomeui-common libgucharmap-2-90-7 libguess1 libjpeg-progs libjpeg9 liblxqt-globalkeys-ui0 liblxqt-globalkeys0 libmenu-cache-bin libmenu-cache3 libmms0 liboobs-1-5 libsdl2-2.0-0 libsidplayfp4 libsndio6.1
    libstatgrab10 libsysstat-qt5-0 libxcb-screensaver0 libyelp0 lximage-qt lxmenu-data lxqt-about lxqt-admin lxqt-common lxqt-config lxqt-core lxqt-globalkeys lxqt-openssh-askpass lxqt-panel lxqt-policykit
    lxqt-powermanagement lxqt-qtplugin lxqt-runner lxqt-sudo obconf-qt ofono pcmanfm-qt qlipper qpdfview qpdfview-djvu-plugin qpdfview-ps-plugin qpdfview-translations qps screengrab smplayer smplayer-l10n
    smplayer-themes smtube system-tools-backends xarchiver xscreensaver xscreensaver-data yelp yelp-xsl
  Suggested packages:
    indicator-network libfm-tools nautilus-actions sidplayfp sndiod calibre juffed nomacs qtpass quassel | quassel-client trojita | claws-mail vokoscreen zim arj lhasa rar rpm unar xfishtank xdaliclock
    xscreensaver-gl fortune qcam | streamer gdm3 | kdm-gdmcompat
  Recommended packages:
    perl5
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    network-manager plasma-nm
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data cmst compton compton-conf connman gnome-user-guide gucharmap libaudcore3 libaudgui3 libaudtag2 libbinio1v5 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libc-ares2
    libconfig9 libcue1 libfluidsynth1 libfm-data libfm-extra4 libfm-gtk-data libfm-gtk4 libfm-modules libfm-qt2 libfm4 libgail18 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0
    libgnomeui-common libgucharmap-2-90-7 libguess1 libjpeg-progs libjpeg9 liblxqt-globalkeys-ui0 liblxqt-globalkeys0 libmenu-cache-bin libmenu-cache3 libmms0 liboobs-1-5 libsdl2-2.0-0 libsidplayfp4 libsndio6.1
    libstatgrab10 libsysstat-qt5-0 libxcb-screensaver0 libyelp0 lximage-qt lxmenu-data lxqt lxqt-about lxqt-admin lxqt-common lxqt-config lxqt-core lxqt-globalkeys lxqt-openssh-askpass lxqt-panel lxqt-policykit
    lxqt-powermanagement lxqt-qtplugin lxqt-runner lxqt-sudo obconf-qt ofono pcmanfm-qt qlipper qpdfview qpdfview-djvu-plugin qpdfview-ps-plugin qpdfview-translations qps screengrab smplayer smplayer-l10n
    smplayer-themes smtube system-tools-backends xarchiver xscreensaver xscreensaver-data yelp yelp-xsl
  0 upgraded, 86 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 22,5 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 105 MB of additional disk space will be used.

  This means that network-manager and plasma-nm are to be uninstalled.
  I have been left with my KDE system without connectivity even before logging out of the KDE session and logging into the LxQt one.
  LxQt doesn't recommend connman, but it's a dependency.
  Thus LxQt cannot run along with KDE and this is to be made clear to users.
  As an option, connman is to be made an option, not a mandatory bit.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: lxqt (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-lowlatency 4.4.19
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Sat Oct 22 10:21:11 2016
  SourcePackage: lxqt-metapackages
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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