kde-runtime depends on transitional dummy package
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| kde-runtime (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
kde-runtime in Ubuntu Xenial, Yakkety and Zesty depends on transitional dummy package oxygen-icon-theme. Although oxygen5-icon-theme provides oxygen-icon-theme, it does not provide a certain version of this package so the versioned kde-runtime dependency on oxygen-icon-theme package (>= 4:4.6) cannot be satisfied by oxygen5-icon-theme. It is necessary to keep the oxygen-icon-theme dummy package to use KDE.
A solution could be to make oxygen5-icon-theme providing a certain version of oxygen-icon-theme but dpkg in Trusty is older than 1.17.11 and does not have versioned provides support so this solution may break upgrading from Trusty to Xenial.
Another solution may be to add an alternative dependency so kde-runtime will depend on oxygen-icon-theme OR oxygen5-icon-theme. But the easiest way is to remove oxygen-icon-theme version number from the dependencies as made in Debian.
