Version mismatch between kdeconnect and kdeconnect-plasma in Ubuntu Xenial; kdeconnect severely outdated.

[Tynach]

**SEE EDIT BELOW**

I was trying to synchronize my phone with my desktop using KDE Connect, and neither device could see the other. After a bunch of troubleshooting, I looked at the version numbers... Only to find that the version of 'kdeconnect' that Ubuntu Xenial packages is the same as what Wily packages - which is a version first published 2015-02-04, over a year ago (https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdeconnect-kde.git&a=tag&t=v0.8).

Now, I would be mostly alright with this, as I know packaging everything up is time consuming and things slip through the cracks. However, the version of kdeconnect-plasma shipped with Xenial is indicated as 0.9+git20160315. If that end bit is indeed a date (and I'm quite sure it is), that means it's in fact newer than even the most recent stable version (0.9g, released 2016-01-02 https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdeconnect-kde.git&a=tag&t=v0.9g)!

Here on Launchpad, Debian Sid has version 0.9g of kdeconnect packaged, and it was packaged on 2016-02-06 (https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/kdeconnect). That was before the 'Debian Import Freeze' on 2016-02-18 according to the Xenial release schedule (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule), so it should have been imported then - not copied from Wily.

I'm not going to mark this as a bug for 'kdeconnect-plasma', as I believe it is correct for it to be a recent build. What's also odd is that within KDE's git repository, I can only find the plasmoid for kdeconnect as part of the same codebase as the rest of kdeconnect itself. So how these two aren't packaged together (or at least have the same source package/version number) is beyond me.

**EDIT:**

After looking at the two packages, it appears that 'kdeconnect-plasma' is meant to actually replace 'kdeconnect'. It turns out my synching issue was due to 'firewalld' being installed at some point, despite no packages depending on it and me never installing it (that I can remember).

Removing the packages 'firewalld' and 'kdeconnect' allows me to synchronize my phone with my desktop properly. I could probably leave 'kdeconnect' there, but why? It's just an outdated version of the same package as 'kdeconnect-plasma'. Perhaps it should either be removed, or turned into a transitional package.

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

Looks to me like 'kubuntu-settings' insists to drag-in that cruft from KDE-SC 4.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

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