#1093653 task-lxqt-desktop: lxqt installs plasma desktop

#1093653#5
Date:
2025-01-20 21:25:58 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

I installed Debian 12.9 using the full DVD installer flashed to a USB stick. I used the graphical installer and selected to install Debian Desktop and
LXQt. When the install was finished Plasma was installed and selected as the default session (LXQt was also available).

I couldn't find any bug reports about this, only some threads on Reddit describing this problem. I'm not sure the bug is in this package, but I figured
it was worth a shot.

Best regards,
Marcus

#1093653#10
Date:
2025-09-21 20:44:56 UTC
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Hi Images Team,

Please consider explicitly including the sddm-theme-debian-elarun
package on any image where the lxqt package is included.

With debian-13.1.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso [1], selecting LXQt on the tasksel
dialog without a network mirror installs KDE along with it. Turns out
this bug was reported for task-lxqt-desktop for 12.9, quoted below:

task-lxqt-desktop depends on "sddm-theme-debian-elarun | sddm-theme" but
I only see sddm-theme-breeze and sddm-theme-debian-breeze in the DVD-1
package lists [2]. I guess the elarun theme isn't automatically included
because the breeze themes will definitely be included for KDE and
satisfy the sddm-theme dependency. And when LXQt tries to pull in sddm
with the only those themes available in the cdrom mirror and without a
network mirror, those pull in plasma-workspace that they depend on.

(Not sure if I should reassign to debian-cd specifically.)


[1]
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/arm64/iso-dvd/debian-13.1.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso

[2]
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/arm64/list-dvd/debian-13.1.0-arm64-DVD-1.list.gz