 BTW, I was able to restore the GG desktop by installing plasma-desktop from tty2. I also installed sddm as it was marked for autoremoval.
[04:09] <valorie> that's what I would have done, yeah
 I've been in this situation too
 The breakage you are reporting looks like what you would expect when using -proposed, before plasma-workspace had been rebuilt against libqalculate21. i.e. upgrading that lib would break and uninstall plasma-workspace.
 However, that has not been that case in the archive since 18th July, so I can only imagine some unwise upgrades were done from proposed back then.
 Groovy release pocket upgrades currently do not have any issue as far as I can test, as should be the case.
[08:48] <mparillo> I know I had enabled -proposed a couple of times to test something, but I am pretty sure I had disabled it before the last update. But no worries; it is about time for me to start with a new ISO anyway.
[10:09] <BluesKaj> Howdy folks
 Rik, how were you able determine libqalculate21 is causing the conflict?
 @DarinMiller, It's the only thing to also be removed in the list that plasma-workspace directly hard depends on
 The list also corresponds to exactly what packages would be removed if you forced removal of libqalculate from a working intsall
 (Photo, 1125x454) https://irc-attachments.kde.org/j0Vkhhcp/file_33986.jpg
 That makes sense.
 plasma-workspace in the release pocket was rebuilt against libqalcuate21, so there should not be breakage. Perhaps some mirror is horribly out of date meaning you are not getting the new plasma-workspace build.
 Wow. Ok. Would not have anticipated that.
 Well, I have no breakage with the UK or main mirror. That is all I can say.
 I agree with the explanation. It was not on my radar of possibilities. :)
[17:10] <mamarley> It looks like gcc-10 is now default in groovy-proposed! O.o
[18:53] <valorie> test images are up: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/414/builds/217725/testcases
[19:02] <sorcerer> so this iso needs to be checked from all points on the boot menu?
[19:02] <sorcerer> im just trying to understand the site
[19:03] <sorcerer> ie auto-resize, entire disk, etc... all those installs need to be checked?
[19:03] <valorie> yes, those are all separate test cases
[19:04] <sorcerer> ah oki
[19:04] <valorie> of course if you run though the live session
[19:04] <valorie> then do an install from there
[19:04] <valorie> usually in a VM
[19:04] <sorcerer> i was gonna do all the different installs and see how they work using a VM
[19:04] <valorie> you can do two 
[19:04] <sorcerer> just wanted to make sure i understood that properly
[19:04] <valorie> cool
[19:05] <sorcerer> im off work tomorrow so ill start on it tomorrow :)
[19:05] <valorie> learning to file bug reports from the VM is crucial
[19:05] <valorie> 'ubuntu-bug packagename` is your friend
[19:06] <sorcerer> kk ill keep that in mind
[19:06] <valorie> almost all the bugs I've filed are against ubuiquity which is the installer
[19:06] <sorcerer> ubuntu-bug already installed or do i need to install it?
[19:06] <sorcerer> im a noob but i catch on quickly
[19:06] <sorcerer> lol
[19:06] <valorie> it's a cli command
[19:06] <sorcerer> but preinstalled?
[19:06] <sorcerer> or apt-get it
[19:06] <valorie> usually even if the installer crashes you can get to a terminal
[19:07] <valorie> of course
[19:07] <valorie> it's part of ubuntu base
[19:07] <sorcerer> kk
[19:07] <sorcerer> ive never used it before
[19:07] <sorcerer> lol
[19:07] <sorcerer> ill learn though
[19:07] <sorcerer> :)
[19:07] <valorie> ah, it's the best
[19:07] <valorie> it downloads the needed files to launchpad
[19:07] <valorie> depending on what package is the issue
[19:08] <sorcerer> 11MB/s download from ubuntu.com, not bad
[19:08] <sorcerer> just downloaded the iso
[19:08] <sorcerer> that way i am prepared
[19:10] <valorie> well, there could be a respin
[19:10] <valorie> so check out zsync
[19:10] <valorie> that way you only have to download the changes
[19:10] <sorcerer> alright ty for the information
[19:11] <valorie> you might want to join #ubuntu-flavors where the testing is coordinated
[19:14] <sorcerer> kk
[20:27] <mparillo> zsyncing but only 400kBps 
[20:40] -queuebot:#kubuntu-devel- Builds: Kubuntu Desktop amd64 [Focal 20.04.1] has been updated (20200724)
[21:15] <valorie> heh
[21:34] <mparillo> I get the right sha256 sum from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/focal/daily-live/current/SHA256SUMS but http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/414/builds/217796/downloads points me to an MD5sum that I cannot verify
[21:37] <valorie> hmmm
[21:38] <valorie> it was updates an ~hour ago....