Hello!
I also had a look to that issue.
In my opinion, the difference is the postinst script in the .deb package.
I compared it with the postinst script of an Apache2 package.
In Apache2 there is the line
invoke-rc.d apache2 start || true
to start the apache2 server.
In lighttpd the corresponding script line is
invoke-rc.d lighttpd start || exit $?
That means, apache takes a non-starting server as ok and still sees the package
as well installed.
Lighttpd sees the non-starting server as error and it is seen as not
installable.
I propose to modify the postinst script in the lighttpd .deb package to replace
the lines from above
by the lines uses with the Apache2 server.
In case of an error (e.g. if port 80 is already in use), lighttpd does not
start but it will be properly installed.
This should solve the problems mentioned by all the reporters to this bug.
Regards
Mathias
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