[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1052216: plasma-mobile should depend on plasma-dialer

[Pirate Praveen]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:32:46 +0200 Marco Mattiolo 
<marco.mattiolo at hotmail.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thank you for reporting.
> 
> For the point of plasma-mobile not depending on plasma-dialer, I'm sorry 
> that's a "wontfix": there are usecases (e.g. tablet) where plasma-mobile 
> can be used without plasma-dialer, then it makes no sense for 
> plasma-mobile to depend on plasma-dialer and to force some user to 
> install plasma-dialer even if not needed.

Thanks for the explanation, makes sense. I was not thinking about the 
tablet use case.

> Your point will be addressed in the near future, as a metapackage is 
> being worked on to bring something like plasma-mobile-phone (which will 
> depend on plasma-dialer and many others) and plasma-mobile-tablet (which 
> will not depend on plasma-dialer) to Debian. In the phone usecase, you 
> will have to install plasma-mobile-phone to get a full plasma-mobile 
> system for the phone usecase, including the dialer.

Thanks for this.

> 
> For the point of the plasma-dialer error, that's an error I've seen in 
> two situations: inside a virtual machine (hence no modem available to 
> route audio calls) or when something was crashing really bad. Just to be 
> sure, have you installed plasma-dialer from the Debian repo with all its 
> dependencies, right? 

yes installed via apt.
 > Does this error still happen after reboot?

It seems to be fixed now and I can make calls with plasma dialer now, 
lso incoming calls are also handled via plasma dialer now.

> Kind regards
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_signature
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 840 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-on-mobile-maintainers/attachments/20230922/a56f80d3/attachment.sig>