Bug#1142773: plasma-nm: Please recommend/suggest qrca for scanning QR codes

Steven <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:11:28 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.qt-kde
Message-ID <178498868812.725112.10489015995587614588.reportbug__23973.1338968099$1784988804$gmane$org@hypokubus>
Package: plasma-nm
Version: 4:6.6.5-2
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Dear Maintainer,

Plasma-nm offers functionality to scan a QR code with connection parameters,
but it needs the qrca package for that.  If that is not installed the widget
will helpfully suggest to install it, but this relation is not reflected in
the plasma-nm package.

Thanks for maintaining!
-Steven


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages plasma-nm depends on:
ii  kio6                                         6.26.0-1
ii  kwallet6                                     6.26.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.42-17
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.88.2-1
ii  libkf6colorscheme6                           6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6completion6                            6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6configcore6                            6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6coreaddons6                            6.26.0-2
ii  libkf6dbusaddons6                            6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6i18n6                                  6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6jobwidgets6                            6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6kcmutils6                              6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6kcmutilscore6                          6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6kcmutilsquick6                         6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6kiogui6                                6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6kiowidgets6                            6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6modemmanagerqt6                        6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6networkmanagerqt6                      6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6notifications6                         6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6service-bin                            6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6service6                               6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6solid6                                 6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6wallet6                                6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6widgetsaddons6                         6.26.0-1
ii  libkf6windowsystem6                          6.26.0-1
ii  libnm0                                       1.56.1-1
ii  libopenconnect5                              9.12-3.3+b1
ii  libplasma7                                   6.6.5-2
ii  libqca-qt6-2                                 2.3.10-3
ii  libqcoro6dbus0t64                            0.13.0-2
ii  libqt6core6t64                               6.10.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt6dbus6                                  6.10.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt6gui6                                   6.10.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt6network6                               6.10.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt6qml6 [qt6-declarative-private-abi]     6.10.2+dfsg-6
ii  libqt6quickwidgets6                          6.10.2+dfsg-6
ii  libqt6webenginecore6                         6.10.2+dfsg-4
ii  libqt6webenginecore6-bin                     6.10.2+dfsg-4
ii  libqt6webenginewidgets6                      6.10.2+dfsg-4
ii  libqt6widgets6                               6.10.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt6xml6                                   6.10.2+dfsg-15
ii  libstdc++6                                   16.1.0-2
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info               20251101-1
ii  network-manager                              1.56.1-1
ii  plasma-desktoptheme                          6.6.5-2
ii  plasma-version [plasma-version-base-6.6]     6.6.1
ii  qml6-module-org-kde-coreaddons               6.26.0-2
ii  qml6-module-org-kde-kirigami                 6.26.0-2
ii  qml6-module-org-kde-kirigamiaddons-formcard  1.12.0-1
ii  qml6-module-org-kde-ksvg                     6.26.0-1
ii  qml6-module-org-kde-networkmanager           6.26.0-1
ii  qml6-module-org-kde-quickcharts              6.26.0-1
ii  qml6-module-qtquick                          6.10.2+dfsg-6
ii  qml6-module-qtquick-controls                 6.10.2+dfsg-6
ii  qml6-module-qtquick-layouts                  6.10.2+dfsg-6
ii  qml6-module-qtquick-window                   6.10.2+dfsg-6

Versions of packages plasma-nm recommends:
ii  systemsettings  4:6.6.5-2

Versions of packages plasma-nm suggests:
pn  network-manager-fortisslvpn  <none>
pn  network-manager-iodine       <none>
pn  network-manager-l2tp         <none>
pn  network-manager-openconnect  <none>
pn  network-manager-openvpn      <none>
pn  network-manager-pptp         <none>
pn  network-manager-ssh          <none>
pn  network-manager-strongswan   <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc         <none>

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