Trojita will not install in Ubuntu 16.04 because it depends on libmimetic0 which is not available from 16.04+ as it was replaced with libmimetic0v5. Here is the error provided when trying to install. > "The following packages have unmet dependencies: trojita : Depends: libmimetic0 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages." deb file acquired from OBS repo. (trojita_0.7_amd64.deb)
Can confirm this on Neon 5.9.4 built on 16.10 and also on plasma built on Debian testing.
Several factors are involved here: - https://wiki.debian.org/GCC5 introduced an extra package suffix to cope with the changed ABI required by GCC's STL which became incompatible with C++11 - While Debian has mimetic in its regular repositories, that is not the case with Ubuntu. Ubuntu only has this in Universe. However, OBS doesn't allow access to Ubuntu Universe packages, so we have to build Mimetic ourselves. - Our bundled Mimetic package must remain compatible with Debian Jessie at least until (some time after) Stretch will have been released (and made available via OBS). If you have experience with Debian packaging, handling the GCC 5 C++11 ABI change, and can provide a patch/request on OBS which handles this while still preserving compatibility with current Debian, patches are welcome. Can you perhaps in the meanwhile give priority to the OBS version of Mimetic?
@Jan would there be any chance for Trojita to set up a PPA to solve the Ubuntu support? If the packages were automatically built by Launchpad then the Debian vs Ubuntu issues would be solved automatically. If Trojita has git somewhere it's actually possible to mirror git commits to Launchpad so that updates are rather seamless. I have used this git mirroring feature before and it works pretty well.
(In reply to Michael Tunnell from comment #3) > @Jan would there be any chance for Trojita to set up a PPA to solve the > Ubuntu support? Anyone is free to set up and maintain their own PPAs. Given that I do not use Ubuntu and that the OBS actually gets the job done, I do not plan on investing my time to provide an Ubuntu-specific solution. > If Trojita has git somewhere it's actually possible to mirror git commits to > Launchpad so that updates are rather seamless. I have used this git > mirroring feature before and it works pretty well. Feel free to setup whatever repos you need, then. You can find Trojita's git URL on the project's homepage :).
> and that the OBS actually gets the job done Except when it doesn't like in this case. :) ------ > Feel free to setup whatever repos you need, then. You can find Trojita's git URL on the project's homepage That would result in me maintaining an unofficial PPA for others and that is not something I think any project should want because that could easily end badly. I suppose this is a "WONTFIX' issue and I'll just wait for Stretch to replace Jessie so that I can review this app. ------ Have a nice day.
Trojitá is no longer maintained, please switch to a maintained alternative like https://apps.kde.org/kmail2/ Sorry for the inconveniences.