Package: qdbus
Severity: serious
Justification: §3.2 and https://wiki.debian.org/SystemDowngrade
Hi,
on one system I wondered why qdbus is still on Qt4. Then I noticed that
the version of the Qt4 qdbus package from Buster is higher (!) than the
version of the Qt5 qdbus package in Bullseye:
$ apt-cache policy qdbus
qdbus:
Installed: 4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u1
Candidate: 4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u1
Version table:
*** 4:4.8.7+dfsg-20 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
5.15.2-3 990
900 https://debian.ethz.ch/debian bullseye/main i386 Packages
>From what I can see, the proper fix is to prepend at least an epoch of
"4" to (only) the transitional package, i.e. to make the version of
qdbus in Bullseye "4:5.15.2-…" instead of just "5.15.2-…".
Even the BTS gets it partially wrong probably because of this and still
thinks the current qdbus package is built from the qt4-x11 source
package:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=qdbus;dist=unstable
(Note that it displays the correct version number, but the wrong source
package.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'),
(500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1,
'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
