#1085139 plasma-desktop 4:6.2.0-1 is uninstallable on a fresh chroot

Package:
plasma-desktop
Source:
plasma-desktop
Description:
Tools and widgets for the desktop
Submitter:
Faidon Liambotis
Date:
2025-08-10 13:55:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1085139#5
Date:
2024-10-15 10:36:24 UTC
From:
To:
I asked around on #debian-kde before filing this bug, but I don't think
there was a clear answer there. I'm not sure if you're welcoming bugs
against experimental, but I figured that part of uploading to
experimental is to iron out bugs before Plasma 6 lands in unstable, so
here goes :)

On a fresh Debian unstable+experimental system (podman run --rm -it debian:sid):

  root@2ee2b937c602:~# apt install -t experimental plasma-desktop
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  Unsatisfied dependencies:
   kwin-common : Depends: libpipewire-0.3-0t64 (>= 0.3.29) but it is not installable
   libkf5iconthemes5 : Depends: qtbase-abi-5-15-13
                       Recommends: libkf5iconthemes-bin (= 5.115.0-2+b1) but it is not going to be installed
   libkpipewire6 : Depends: libpipewire-0.3-0t64 (>= 0.3.1) but it is not installable
   plasma5-integration : Depends: qml-module-org-kde-qqc2desktopstyle but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: libkf5kiofilewidgets5 (>= 5.102.0~) but it is not installable
                         Depends: libkf5waylandclient5 (>= 4:5.102.0~) but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: libkf5xmlgui5 (>= 5.102.0~) but it is not installable
                         Depends: qtbase-abi-5-15-13
   qml6-module-org-kde-pipewire : Depends: libpipewire-0.3-0t64 (>= 0.3.1) but it is not installable
  Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I've also tried with apt --solver 3.0, as well as with manually
installing some dependencies but couldn't get it to install. IIRC it has
been this way for a while now, even with 6.1.0.

Installing plasma-desktop from unstable (apt install plasma-desktop),
and then upgrading to experimental (apt install -t experimental
plasma-desktop) seems to do the trick, albeit with a lot of cruft.

Thanks,
Faidon

#1085139#10
Date:
2024-10-16 17:31:08 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,
think
debian:sid):
not installable
5.115.0-2+b1) but it is not going to be installed
not installable
but it is not going to be installed
but it is not installable
but it is not going to be installed
is not installable
0.3.1) but it is not installable
has

There are still several moving parts in all of this. And until we've
uploaded Plasma 6 to unstable, we won't know all problems.

Since Plasma 6 is installable from experimental, this should not be
considered an RC bug until we upload it to unstable and hit trouble
there.

#1085139#17
Date:
2025-08-10 13:52:10 UTC
From:
To:
Le mardi 15 octobre 2024, 12:36:24 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Faidon Liambotis a écrit :