[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#869186: Bug#869186: mutt: Install missing required dependencies (libxapian30)

[Boruch Baum]

Thanks Evgeni for the quick response. It's gratifying to see a debian
maintainer so alert and responsive.

This may *possibly* be what some folks say is _my bad_, so let me add
some details, that I didn't realize until after I hit 'send'.

On 2017-07-21 13:32, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 07:02:50AM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
> > Upon upgrading `mutt' from the stable to testing repositories, mutt
> > ceased to function, offering the following error message:
>
> There is no mutt 1.7.2-1 in testing. Did you mean upgrading
> jessie→stretch?

I meant upgrading from 1.5.xx to 1.7.2-1.

This next indented section is tangential, but important:

  My bug report may be valid for debian, or not. The main problem with
  my report is that it was intended to be sent to your ?evil? or at
  least "more-challenged" twin, the devuan project. I am running their
  version of 'stable' which has mutt 1.5.xxx and upgraded to their
  'testing' version 1.7.2-1.

  Their package `reportbug' in their stable repository sends bug reports
  to debian, not devuan (aaargh!). I have since upgraded to their
  'testing' version, and filed a bug report against their 'stable'
  version, but I see that even their 'testing' version is flawed in that
  it seems to always send reports to BOTH devuan and debian (aaargh!).
  So, I will file another bug report (manually) to them.

  It might be a good idea if you could join me in complaining to the
  devuan folks. For me this is embarassing, but really, I wasn't
  expecting this incompetence.

> mutt has a dependency on libnotmuch4, libnotmuch4 has a dependency on
> libxapian30, mutt is not using any xapian directly AFAIK.

This issue is that libnotmuch4 links to a whole lot of xapian symbols
that will be undefined until the correct version of the xapian library
is installed.

> so we might discuss this as being a not-strong-enough dep between
> libnotmuch4 and libxapian30, but not a serios bug in mutt.

Agreed. Can you re-assign it, or should I re-file, or should we drop
this? There is still the possibility that this really isn't a debian
issue at all, but a devuan one, but its something easy to check.

Apologies again,

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