Pan newsreader cannot be installed on Debian Sid

[Daniel Wayne Armstrong]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:56:27PM -0400, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
>> Pan newsreader package in Debian Sid cannot be installed. It has a
>> dependency for libgmime-2.0-2a ... but libgmime-2.4-2 is installed.
>> This appears to be a known problem:
>>
>> http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=sid&package=pan
>>
>> I tried downloading and installing all the other dependencies + the
>> more-recent available version of libgmime - older version is not
>> availble in Sid - and downloading and installing the pan package with
>> a 'dpkg --ignore-depends=libgmime-2.0-2a -i pan_0.133-1.1_i386.deb'
>> ... but it won't launch:
>>
>> $ pan
>> pan: error while loading shared libraries: libgmime-2.0.so.2: cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> It *really* wants that libgmime-2.0-2a.
>>
>> Any suggestions how I might work around this? Thanks!
>
> You could try:
>
> apt-get build-dep pan
> apt-get source -b pan
>
> Maybe if you recompile it will compile against the new library version
> and be happy.
>
> Otherwise there isn't much you can do.  It is depending on an obsolete
> library that you don't have, so it won't run.
>
> Short of putting the obsolete library manually into /usr/local/lib there
> really is no way around it.
>
> Now having just tried the apt-get commands, that doesn't work, because
> the build-dep includes that obsolete library.
>
> Converting from gmime 2.0 to 2.4 seems non trivial unfortunately.
> pan 0.134 is gmime 2.4 compatible (being 3 years newer than 0.133).
> It appears to be labeled beta though and isn't packaged in debian.
>
> Anyhow, I made a new package.  Find it at
> http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/pan/
>
> If you get the .dsc, .diff.gz and .tar.gz and put them in one directory
> you should be able to build it with:
> dpkg-source -x pan_0.134-0.0.dsc
> cd pan-0.134
> dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
> cd ..
> dpkg -i pan_0.134*deb
>
> If the dpkg-buildpackage fails with a list of missing dependancies,
> well install those with apt-get install and try again.
>
> My build for amd64 unstable is there too and it runs on my machine.

Thanks Lennart ... Though the 'libgmime-2.0-2a' package from wheezy is
working out. I currently have both packages installed under Sid:

ii  libgmime-2.0-2a                      2.2.25-2
   MIME library
ii  libgmime-2.4-2                       2.4.23-1
   MIME message parser and creator library - runtime

I take it that they can peacefully coexist because the version is in
the package name ... clearly marking them as different packages?

Pan newsreader is now installed from Sid and seems to be running fine.

I am bookmarking your email because learning how to make a Debian
package is definitely on my "ToLearn" list.


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