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lubuntu-meta package

Don't depend on gdebi-kde (or port it to Qt 5)

Bug #1743877 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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lubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
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Simon Quigley

Bug Description

gdebi-kde has been dropped by Debian's gdebi package since it was the last thing in Debian depending on pykde4. This is part of a larger effort to remove Qt 4 from Debian and Ubuntu.

lubuntu-qt-desktop depends on gdebi-kde, which is preventing the latest version of gdebi from migrating out of bionic-proposed. Please drop the dependency (you can replace it with the GTK+ frontend 'gdebi' if you like). Alternatively, you can port gdebi-kde to Qt 5 and re-enable it in both Debian and Ubuntu.

By the way, kubuntu-desktop stopped including gdebi-kde by default in 2011.

Tags: bionic
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Alf Gaida (agaida) wrote :

another reason to drop gdebi at all is apt's ability to install locale packages like charm with:

apt install ./$path/to/package.deb

The only thing about is that a little bit education is needed as it is a relative new feature of apt.

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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

I commented it out in the seed itself, but I have yet to upload a new lubuntu-meta.

Doing that now, should hit -proposed soon.

Changed in lubuntu-meta (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package lubuntu-meta - 0.88

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lubuntu-meta (0.88) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Add arm64 packages for future image opportunities
  * Added neofetch to desktop, desktop-gtk, desktop-qt
  * Removed gdebi-kde from desktop-qt (LP: #1743877)

 -- Simon Quigley <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:44:09 -0600

Changed in lubuntu-meta (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Scott Cowles Jacobs (scott092707) wrote :

I am using Lubuntu Next 17.10 from last October.

I had problems with gdebi-kde (some sort of missing module), and installed gdebi,
which also has a problem (if I don't invoke from terminal, cannot install, as no password window ever appears), but at least I can get around it.

If one did not install gdebi (GTK), and no Qt5 replacement were ever developed,
would there be any way to use apt from a right-click context window on a .deb file from my file manager? (GUI way to install .deb s)?

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