Your message dated Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:52:35 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#925079: lightning: cannot install due to hard amd64 dependency has caused the Debian Bug report #925079, regarding lightning: cannot install due to hard amd64 dependency to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: lightning Version: 1:60.5.1-1~deb9u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I don't know if the following is due to my inability, a limitation in apt or some problem with lightning, so please bear with me :/ In any case, I had both lightning and thunderbird:i386 installed in stretch, because this is a "low-memory" amd64 system, and installing some key programs (such as firefox and thunderbirds) as i386 packages shaves off multiple gigabytes of ram usage (or rather, swap usage in practise). This worked fine until I recently tried to upgrade to buster. After the upgrade, lightning was gone. Trying to install it manually tries to pull in "thunderbird" (the amd64 package), even thought thunderbird (the i386 package) is already installed. Trying to force the issue with: # apt install lightning thunderbird:i386 Fails: The following packages have unmet dependencies: lightning : Depends: thunderbird (>= 1:60.5.1-1) but it is not going to be installed So the problem is that lightning has a hard dependency on the amd64 version of the package. This is common, and the normal solution for this problem is to install the matching lightning:i386 package, but unfortunately, lighting doesn't have a :i386 package, likely because it is Architecture:all. Again, this doesn't necessarily look like a problem with lightning, even though it is the only package that causes a problem on the system. It could well be that I am doing something wrong, or that this is a shortcoming in apt. I decided to bring this to your attention. If you know the right package for this bug (if any), it would be great if you could reassign. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, x32 Kernel: Linux 4.19.27-041927-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lightning depends on: pn thunderbird <none> lightning recommends no packages. Versions of packages lightning suggests: pn calendar-google-provider <none> ii fonts-lyx 2.2.2-1
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--- Begin Message ---Control: tags -1 wontfix Hello Marc, On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 07:12:56PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > I don't know if the following is due to my inability, a limitation in apt > or some problem with lightning, so please bear with me :/ > > In any case, I had both lightning and thunderbird:i386 installed in > stretch, because this is a "low-memory" amd64 system, and installing some > key programs (such as firefox and thunderbirds) as i386 packages shaves > off multiple gigabytes of ram usage (or rather, swap usage in practise). > > This worked fine until I recently tried to upgrade to buster. After the > upgrade, lightning was gone. > > Trying to install it manually tries to pull in "thunderbird" (the amd64 > package), even thought thunderbird (the i386 package) is already installed. > > Trying to force the issue with: > > # apt install lightning thunderbird:i386 > > Fails: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > lightning : Depends: thunderbird (>= 1:60.5.1-1) but it is not going to > be installed > > So the problem is that lightning has a hard dependency on the amd64 > version of the package. This is common, and the normal solution for > this problem is to install the matching lightning:i386 package, but > unfortunately, lighting doesn't have a :i386 package, likely because it is > Architecture:all. > > Again, this doesn't necessarily look like a problem with lightning, even > though it is the only package that causes a problem on the system. It > could well be that I am doing something wrong, or that this is a > shortcoming in apt. > > I decided to bring this to your attention. If you know the right package > for this bug (if any), it would be great if you could reassign. Lightning is since version 60.5.0 a transitional package as the functionality is included within Thunderbird itself. Thus the dependency on the package thunderbird. This is simply to resolve for you, simply remove the lightning package. I'll close this report now as the state that Lightning is now included within Thunderbird itself is present for over a year. Regards Carsten
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