Source: libayatana-appindicator Version: 0.5.5-3 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: onit...@gmail.com
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)
