Hi Marco, great job you did there!
So, when I am looking at your results, it looks for me, that the package qml-module-org-kde-newstuff is only recommended. But if so, IMO this then is a bug. Just because some things in systemsettings of plasma do not work without this package installed, it should be set to "depends", to make sure it is beeing installed. I hope, the package maintainers are reading this, too, so it may be fixed and will not be necessary to file a bug. Best regards Hans > > If I investigate my package installations with the following commands: > apt list qml-module-org-kde-newstuff > aptitude why qml-module-org-kde-newstuff > apt rdepends qml-module-org-kde-newstuff > > then I am shown: > that it was drawn in as a dependency: > qml-module-org-kde-newstuff/stable,now 5.78.0-4 amd64 [installed,automatic] > > and that several packages could depend on it or could recommend it: > > i plasma-desktop Depends plasma-desktop-data (= 4:5.20.5-4) > i A plasma-desktop-data Recommends qml-module-org-kde-newstuff > > Reverse Depends: > Depends: knewstuff-dialog (= 5.86.0-2) > Depends: systemsettings > Depends: plasma-systemmonitor (>= 5.78.0~) > Recommends: plasma-desktop-data > Depends: peruse > Recommends: libkf5newstuffcore5 (= 5.86.0-2) > Depends: knewstuff-dialog (= 5.78.0-4) > Breaks: libkf5coreaddons5 (<< 5.42) > Breaks: libkf5attica5 (<< 5.42) > Depends: artikulate > Depends: plasma-systemmonitor (>= 5.66.0~) > Recommends: plasma-desktop-data > Depends: peruse > Recommends: libkf5newstuffcore5 (= 5.78.0-4) > Breaks: libkf5attica5 (<< 5.42) > Breaks: libkf5coreaddons5 (<< 5.42) > Depends: artikulate > > So, these are the candidates which could have let install it > automatically. However, I almost never let install recommends and the > list also shows packages which I actually have not installed at all. It > pretty much looks like plasma-desktop-data drew it in, but I am quite > sure that I installed plasma-desktop without recommends (apt install > --no-install-recommends) and therefore would expect that also its > dependency plasma-desktop-data should have been installed without > recommends. But about this last point I am not sure how apt handles it. > Unfortunately I also do not find in the apt command's "term" or > "history" logs, or the dpkg logs which package finally did draw it in, I > can only find the date when it was installed together with many (too > many!) other packages at a certain date, probably the day when I > upgraded from buster to bullseye. > Therefore I cannot help you to localize the package which indeed was > responsible to draw it in. > > If someone could teach me how to narrow down from the candidates to the > finally responsible package, or some other approach how to derive the > searched for information, then I could continue to investigate my system > for you. Otherwise I am stuck and wouldn't know how to help you more. > > Best wishes, > Marco
