Bug 687986

Summary:	kde-apps/kaddressbook should depend on kdepim-addons for working with postal addresses
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	kavol
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	chain
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description kavol 2019-06-13 08:53:28 UTC

I needed to check a postal address of a friend. What was my surprise when kaddressbook refused to display the contents of the location tab in contact details, saying something about a missing module and checking the installation - without any clue what exactly should I check, which module is missing.

Looking for solution, I have found this problem has been discussed already in Debian:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895670

Emerging kdepim-addons fixed the problem for me too.

And I also think that kdepim-addons should be added to kaddressbook dependency chain, at least conditionally via some comprehensible USE flag.

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2019-06-13 11:22:59 UTC

We won't introduce a USE flag for an optional runtime dependency for sure. On the other hand, not having postal addresses available in a contact software seems important enough to make it a permanent RDEPEND.

Comment 2 Richard H. 2019-09-28 20:59:35 UTC

I also stumbled upon this bug. An addressbook without postal addresses is quite useless I guess, but kdepim-addons have their own dependencies as well. If nothing else, please include some merge-message so people can make sense out of this situaion. I for myself did a complete reinstall and just then found the Debian bug. Could have saved myself a lot of hassle.

Please, whatever it will be, something needs to be done here.

Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2019-09-29 20:18:22 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=42e4d894a2933c33c87c8b4537c37c6abd205cac

commit 42e4d894a2933c33c87c8b4537c37c6abd205cac
Author:     Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-09-29 20:15:49 +0000
Commit:     Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-09-29 20:18:07 +0000

    kde-apps/kaddressbook: Add warning if kdepim-addons is not installed
    
    In general, users expecting complete functionality are invited to use
    kde-apps/kdepim-meta. This warning won't hurt though.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/687986
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.76, Repoman-2.3.17
    Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>

 kde-apps/kaddressbook/kaddressbook-19.08.49.9999.ebuild | 9 +++++++++
 kde-apps/kaddressbook/kaddressbook-9999.ebuild          | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)