[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#919242: quassel-core: fails to start, permission errors

[martian]

Package: quassel-core
Version: 1:0.13.0-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

When attempting to start quassel-core as a regular user,
it is unable to start, errors below (note occurs without any config files
present. Permissions on the .config directory are drwxr-xr-x  martian:martian
so this is not the issue.

2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Error] Unable to create Quassel config directory: /home/martian/.config/quassel-irc.org
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Warn ] SslServer: Certificate file quasselCert.pem does not exist 
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Warn ] SslServer: Unable to set certificate file
           Quassel Core will still work, but cannot provide SSL for client connections.
           Please see https://quassel-irc.org/faq/cert to learn how to enable SSL support. 
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Error] Unable to create Quassel config directory: /home/martian/.config/quassel-irc.org
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Warn ] SslServer: Certificate file quasselCert.pem does not exist 
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Error] Unable to create Quassel config directory: /home/martian/.config/quassel-irc.org
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Warn ] PostgreSQL driver plugin not available for Qt. Installed drivers: QSQLITE 
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Error] Unable to create Quassel config directory: /home/martian/.config/quassel-irc.org
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Error] Unable to create Quassel config directory: /home/martian/.config/quassel-irc.org
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Error] Unable to create Quassel config directory: /home/martian/.config/quassel-irc.org
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Warn ] No storage backend selected! 
2019-01-13 18:31:03 [Error] "Cannot write quasselcore configuration; probably a permission problem."

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages quassel-core depends on:
ii  adduser            3.118
ii  libc6              2.28-4
ii  libgcc1            1:8.2.0-14
ii  libqca-qt5-2       2.1.3-2
ii  libqt5core5a       5.11.3+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5network5     5.11.3+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5script5      5.11.3+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5sql5         5.11.3+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5sql5-sqlite  5.11.3+dfsg-2
ii  libstdc++6         8.2.0-14
ii  lsb-base           10.2018112800
ii  openssl            1.1.1a-1
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

quassel-core recommends no packages.

Versions of packages quassel-core suggests:
pn  libqt5sql5-psql  <none>

-- no debconf information