Mailspring: can't install on debian testing, mailspring : Depends: gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 but it is not installable

[duriantang]

$ sudo apt install ./mailspring-1.3.0-amd64.deb                     
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'mailspring' instead of './mailspring-1.3.0-amd64.deb'
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:
 mailspring : Depends: gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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[duriantang]

gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 removed from testing.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libgnome-keyring

[bengotow]

Hey—were you able to find a workaround for this? Did they replace gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 with something else?

[stefaca]

gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 can be found in SID but please, do not make us to use SID packages :( Is there any chance that you can fix dependency issue?

[zeph]

yeah, would love to get back using MailSpring

guys, you seem overwhelmed with tickets... make it a PRO pay software, and fix the bugs... we ("I", at least) love it... and I need Exchange, Calendar, GPG to work. You have the best indexing/search solution ever. Please, get money and hire some more workforce

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[luqasz]

Debian buster is in freeze and will become stable release.

[stefaca]

Debian buster is in freeze and will become stable release.

Which is not going to solve problem.

[bengotow]

Hey folks—it looks like they deprecated gnome-keyring in favor of libsecret, and we actually already use libsecret. Libsecret just maps to your underlying keyring, and I think that Mailspring installs gnome-keyring to ensure that you have at least /some/ keyring installed on your system.

Could you try installing the dpkg manually and force-ignoring that dependency? The app may just work, and we need to update the package config to mark that the dependency is optional.

wget https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/releases/download/1.6.3/mailspring-1.6.3-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i --ignore-depends=gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 mailspring-1.6.3-amd64.deb

[geonnave]

@bengotow thanks, your solution worked on my Debian 10!

I also had to install the following packages that mailspring depends on:

sudo apt install libsecret-1-dev gvfs gvfs-bin gconf2

[geonnave]

Ooops, I just noticed, now debian complains about unmet dependencies:

$ sudo apt install httpie
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
httpie is already the newest version (0.9.8-2).
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mailspring : Depends: gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Any suggestions to ignore that too? (if I run apt --fix-broken install, mailspring gets removed :disappointed:)

Edit - fixed

Fixed it by (1) unpacking the .deb, (2) deleting gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 from the list of dependencies, and (3) repackaging the new .deb ¹.

¹ https://serverfault.com/questions/250224/how-do-i-get-apt-get-to-ignore-some-dependencies/383958#383958

[jimblue]

Please add Debian Buster support :)

[wop]

You can ignore the dependency this way:
dpkg --ignore-depends=gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 -i mailspring-x.x.x-amd64.deb

That works for me in Debian Buster

[zeph]

Il giorno mer, 04/09/2019 alle 11.48 -0700, wop ha scritto:

You can ignore the dependency this way:
dpkg --ignore-depends=gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 -i mailspring-x.x.x-
amd64.deb
That works for me in Debian Buster

$ sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 -i
~/Downloads/mailspring-1.6.3-amd64.deb

worked as well for me on Devuan Beowulf, thanks for the heads up wop!

best,
GMS

[Labohkip81]

This works for me.