Subject: bug#542 closed by Mark Hindley <[email-masked]> (Re: wicd-gtk: Package can't be installed because of missing deps)

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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:33:05 +0000

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#542: wicd-gtk: Package can't be installed because of missing deps

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Subject: Re: wicd-gtk: Package can't be installed because of missing deps
From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
To: Nico Orru <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 14:18:35 +0000

Nico,

Thanks for this.

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 09:22:22PM +0000, Nico Orru wrote:
> Package: wicd-gtk
> Version: wicd-gtk_1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1_all.deb
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> - On Devuan Ceres

As you have discovered, wicd has not been updated to python3 and is therefore
not available in chimaera or ceres. It has already been removed from chimaera. I
will remove it from ceres to fix this bug.

> - after apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> - Network applet disappear
> - No network at boot
> - No app to configure network

You will need to use a different application: network-manager or conman are
options.

HTH.

Mark

Subject: wicd-gtk: Package can't be installed because of missing deps
From: Nico Orru <[email-masked]>
To: Devuan Bug Tracking System <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 21:22:22 +0000

Package: wicd-gtk
Version: wicd-gtk_1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1_all.deb
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

- On Devuan Ceres
- after apt-get dist-upgrade

- Network applet disappear
- No network at boot
- No app to configure network
- wicd-gtk is now missing

Attempting to reinstall the app produces the following

nico@lenovo-devuan:~$ sudo apt install wicd-gtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wicd-gtk : Depends: python-glade2 but it is not installable
            Depends: python-gtk2 but it is not installable
            Recommends: python-notify but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Dependencies are not available in repository

nico@lenovo-devuan:~$ apt-cache show python-glade2
N: Can't select versions from package 'python-glade2' as it is purely virtual
N: No packages found
nico@lenovo-devuan:~$ sudo apt-get install python-glade2
[sudo] password for nico: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package python-glade2 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'python-glade2' has no installation candidate

wicd-gtk_1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1_all.deb

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera/ceres)
Release:	testing/unstable
Codename:	n/a
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on:
pn  python-glade2               <none>
pn  python-gtk2                 <none>
ii  python-is-python2 [python]  2.7.18-8
ii  wicd-daemon                 1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1

Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends:
ii  policykit-1    0.105-29+devuan1
pn  python-notify  <none>

wicd-gtk suggests no packages.