Your message dated Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:03:52 +0000
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Bug#996201: fixed in libayatana-appindicator 0.5.90-6
has caused the Debian Bug report #996201,
regarding libayatana-appindicator: Provide compatibility for software that
depends on libappindicator (Slack)
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected]
immediately.)
--
996201: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996201
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Source: libayatana-appindicator
Version: 0.5.5-3
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
Some software vendors provide Debian packages that depend on libappindicator,
without also supporting alternative versions such as libayatana-appindicator.
Specifically, Slack is uninstallable from Debian 11 onward, as the
Canonical/Ubuntu version of libappindicator was dropped.
Ubuntu still maintains their version of libappindicator, so the vendor has
refused to fix their package because they don't care about Debian
compatibility.
It's possible to install libappindicator from the Debian buster archive, but
this is not an acceptable solution for regular users.
Please provide a compatibility layer so users can install Slack on Debian
again. The indicator libraries seem to be fully binary compatible, so a simple
dummy package for libappindicator3-1 that provides symlinks from libayatana-
appindicator3.so.1.0.0 to libappindicator3.so.1.0.0 and libayatana-
indicator3.so.7 to libindicator3.so.7 should be enough.
Quote from the vendor:
> We are aware of these dependencies, but unfortunately Debian is not one of
our supported distros, so I'm afraid we can't change the dependencies to make
Slack work on Debian. For a while, we suspected this could cascade into the
next ubuntu release, and the team would have amended it, but testing on ubuntu
pre-release proved that it seems to install just fine, so the decision was made
to not make any changes.
Thank you.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: libayatana-appindicator
Source-Version: 0.5.90-6
Done: Mike Gabriel <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libayatana-appindicator, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> (supplier of updated
libayatana-appindicator package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256
Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:38:16 +0100
Source: libayatana-appindicator
Architecture: source
Version: 0.5.90-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Ayatana Packagers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Mike Gabriel <[email protected]>
Closes: 996201
Changes:
libayatana-appindicator (0.5.90-6) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* debian/control:
+ Add B:/R: rules so that libayatana-appindicator will finally replace
libappindicator.
* debian/:
+ Provide libappindicator compat files for runtime. This re-adds support
for 3rd party apps that have been built against Canonical's
libappindicator rather than libayatana-appindicator. (Closes: #996201).
Checksums-Sha1:
efaef3b994a178bcd0522dc60e182025615fb874 5092
libayatana-appindicator_0.5.90-6.dsc
7c3a4fb42fec2bc198d885f59f7f578fd3af1094 18584
libayatana-appindicator_0.5.90-6.debian.tar.xz
e400121f27d1188cc28bd764d7927c3a99fa9402 28295
libayatana-appindicator_0.5.90-6_source.buildinfo
Checksums-Sha256:
a2cf4163a9229fe6c442a7e67854c5f6459ecb392f8aca245f7c3120bd57ff2c 5092
libayatana-appindicator_0.5.90-6.dsc
0af8ea42dce3860e08bac7aa43c2f4749954aaae41afea7fda5dc9bae76a0981 18584
libayatana-appindicator_0.5.90-6.debian.tar.xz
f1b92922b1cb0cacaa599a72a6c6687e96e702c9f071ace06fa7223180393d8a 28295
libayatana-appindicator_0.5.90-6_source.buildinfo
Files:
84c0ba488f92146051e7d1f0d55b5ecd 5092 libs optional
libayatana-appindicator_0.5.90-6.dsc
438dea21f0bf493a94c166f8c1176fb4 18584 libs optional
libayatana-appindicator_0.5.90-6.debian.tar.xz
149617f88196e8d63752748563f01a01 28295 libs optional
libayatana-appindicator_0.5.90-6_source.buildinfo
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----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=Dz3Q
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--- End Message ---
