plasma-firewall pulls in firewalld resulting in blocking any access from outside to the machine (was: Re: Plasma 6 coming to unstable)

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Steven, hi!

Steven Robbins - 29.11.24, 07:40:38 MEZ:
> I have a question about firewalld.  I did not have it installed before. 
> It seems it got pulled in with the plasma upgrade, is that possible? 
> Running "aptitude why firewalld" says:
> 
> i   kwin-common     Recommends plasma-desktop (>= 4:6.2.0~)
> i A plasma-desktop  Recommends plasma-firewall (>= 6.2.0~)
> i A plasma-firewall Recommends firewalld | ufw

I mentioned it before on debian-kde:

firewalld (was: Re: Plasma 6 coming to unstable)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2024/11/msg00023.html

I wonder whether it makes sense to lower the recommends to a suggest.

On the other hand for a desktop machine blocking everything could be seen 
as a great default. Maybe something to be mentioned in NEWS.Debian, so
apt-listchanges can pick it up? Something for release notes?

Cause at least for those who upgrade and use SSH or whatever to access 
their desktop machines remotely this is kind of unexpected behavior.

Any conclusions?

Do not want to promise anything, but I probably could write something up.

Best,
-- 
Martin