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[Matthew Scheirer <matt.scheirer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Anyone that tries to install Kubuntu-meta, or from Kubuntu tries to
install Ubuntu-desktop, will hit conflicts with accounts-sso providers
in /usr/share/accounts/providers (and possibly in service files in the
future). As a result, many automatic bugs are being generated on both
packages relating to this conflict in both directions, below are the
most popular ones for each:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/account-plugins/+bug/1539988
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kaccounts-providers/+bug/1489507

kaccounts-providers is imported from Debian directly without repackaging
and Debian does not package the Ubuntu account-plugins anywhere.
Upstream KDE is being forced to break accounts-sso standards and impose
systemwide envvars to work around that this package should conflict with
KDE's: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347219

Either Ubuntu / Kubuntu should be amending the Debian package to make it
conflict with these plugin packages when importing it, or the psmteam
should make this package conflict with kaccounts-providers. The later
would be less work, since account-plugins is only packaged in Ubuntu for
Unity.

This change is necessary in Wily and beyond since those are the releases
shipping kaccounts-providers.

** Affects: account-plugins (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Summary changed:

- Make this metapackage conflict with kaccounts-plugins
+ Make this metapackage conflict with kaccounts-providers

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540135

Title:
  Make this metapackage conflict with kaccounts-providers

Status in account-plugins package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Anyone that tries to install Kubuntu-meta, or from Kubuntu tries to
  install Ubuntu-desktop, will hit conflicts with accounts-sso providers
  in /usr/share/accounts/providers (and possibly in service files in the
  future). As a result, many automatic bugs are being generated on both
  packages relating to this conflict in both directions, below are the
  most popular ones for each:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/account-plugins/+bug/1539988
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kaccounts-providers/+bug/1489507

  kaccounts-providers is imported from Debian directly without
  repackaging and Debian does not package the Ubuntu account-plugins
  anywhere. Upstream KDE is being forced to break accounts-sso standards
  and impose systemwide envvars to work around that this package should
  conflict with KDE's: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347219

  Either Ubuntu / Kubuntu should be amending the Debian package to make
  it conflict with these plugin packages when importing it, or the
  psmteam should make this package conflict with kaccounts-providers.
  The later would be less work, since account-plugins is only packaged
  in Ubuntu for Unity.

  This change is necessary in Wily and beyond since those are the
  releases shipping kaccounts-providers.

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