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#49 Problems with SeaMonkey 2.53.4 package

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2020-11-15
2020-09-23
Dirk Fieldhouse
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  1. The SeaMonkey Ubuntuzilla package can't be upgraded with Synaptic:
    "W: Failed to fetch https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt/pool/main/s/seamonkey-mozilla-build/seamonkey-mozilla-build_2.53.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
    The HTTP server sent an invalid reply header"

  2. The package can be downloaded but can't be installed graphically using gdebi, because

  3. SeaMonkey claims to provide IceWeasel (does it?)

  4. hunspell-en-us from Xenial claims to conflict with IceWeasel.
    As gdebi isn't being asked to install IceWeasel, it's being too picky here.

  5. The package was easily installed with dpkg -i.

  6. Does the package really have no dependencies?

2 and #4 apply to previous versions too. #1 is new for 2.53.4.

Discussion

  • Dirk Fieldhouse

    Dirk Fieldhouse - 2020-09-23

    Further issues:
    SF ticket system reformats plain text unexpectedly if JS isn't enabled
     SF ticket system doesn't provide for editing the initial post in a ticket to correct vandalism, eg.

    Try this instead.

    1. The SeaMonkey Ubuntuzilla package can't be upgraded with Synaptic:
    "W: Failed to fetch https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt/pool/main/s/seamonkey-mozilla-build/seamonkey-mozilla-build_2.53.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
    The HTTP server sent an invalid reply header"

    2. The package can be downloaded but can't be installed graphically using gdebi, because
    - SeaMonkey claims to provide IceWeasel (does it?)
   - hunspell-en-us from Xenial claims to conflict with IceWeasel.
    As gdebi isn't being asked to install IceWeasel, it's being too picky here.

  3. The package was easily installed with dpkg -i.

   4. Does the package really have no dependencies?

 #2 and #4 apply to previous versions too. #1 is new for 2.53.4.
     

  • nanotube

    nanotube - 2020-09-23

    Hi, thank you for the bug report.
    For issues with SF ticket system, please report on the main SF tracker. This is just one of the thousands of random projects that's hosted on SF.
    This is the main SF tracker: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/new/

    Regarding the issues you report:

    1. seems to be a transient mirror propagation problem - just tried grabbing package with apt and had no problems. Try again?

    2. I added iceweasel and the rest of the 'provides' list by just copying out of the firefox package a few years ago, following this bug report: https://sourceforge.net/p/ubuntuzilla/support-requests/3/
      Haven't kept up with the iceweasel drama, is iceweasel still a thing even? I can take out the iceweasel provide, as long as it doesn't break anything else.

    3. good :)

    4. Well... this project just repackages the binaries built by mozilla, so presumably they only rely on things that are available by default, and include everything else.

     

    • Dirk Fieldhouse

      Dirk Fieldhouse - 2020-09-23

      On 23/09/2020 15:40, nanotube wrote:

      Hi, thank you for the bug report.
      For issues with SF ticket system, please report on the main SF tracker. This is just one of the thousands of random projects that's hosted on SF.
      This is the main SF tracker: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/new/

      Understood. I don't suppose it's going to be improved at its time of life.

      Regarding the issues you report:

      1. seems to be a transient mirror propagation problem - just tried grabbing package with apt and had no problems. Try again?

      Still the same result. In SM itself, the quoted URL links to the
      download when sourceforge.net and fsdn.com are enabled for JS. Without
      JS I just get the interstitial page
      https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntuzilla/files/mozilla/apt/pool/main/s/seamonkey-mozilla-build/seamonkey-mozilla-build_2.53.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb/download?use_mirror=master&download=&failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net
      "Your download will start shortly..."

      And:
      $ apt-get -o Debug::Acquire::https=1 download seamonkey-mozilla-build
      ...
      Connected to ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net (200.236.31.2) port 443 (#0)
      ...
       ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1

      GET
      /project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt/pool/main/s/seamonkey-mozilla-build/seamonkey-mozilla-build_2.53.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
      HTTP/1.1
      Host: ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net
      User-Agent: Debian APT-CURL/1.0 (1.2.32ubuntu0.1)
      Accept: /
      Cache-Control: max-age=0

      0% [Working] Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
      < HTTP/1.1 302 Found
      < Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:16:55 GMT
      < Server: Apache
      < Location:
      https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt/pool/main/s/seamonkey-mozilla-build/seamonkey-mozilla-build_2.53.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb?download&failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net
      < Content-Length: 384
      < Connection: close
      < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
      <
       Closing connection 0
      Issue another request to this URL:
      'https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt/pool/main/s/seamonkey-mozilla-build/seamonkey-mozilla-build_2.53.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb?download&failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net'
       Trying 216.105.38.13:443...
      Connected to downloads.sourceforge.net (216.105.38.13) port 443 (#1)
      ...
       ALPN, server accepted to use h2
      * Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
      ...

      GET
      /project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt/pool/main/s/seamonkey-mozilla-build/seamonkey-mozilla-build_2.53.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb?download&failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net
      HTTP/2
      Host: downloads.sourceforge.net
      user-agent: Debian APT-CURL/1.0 (1.2.32ubuntu0.1)
      accept: /
      cache-control: max-age=0

      The redirected URL should have the ts parameter in order to get to the
      file "...&ts=n" where, I guess, n is a recent time_t, as in the "direct
      link" on
      https://sourceforge.net/settings/mirror_choices?projectname=ubuntuzilla&filename=mozilla/apt/pool/main/s/seamonkey-mozilla-build/seamonkey-mozilla-build_2.53.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb&selected=master

      1. I added iceweasel and the rest of the 'provides' list by just copying out of the firefox package a few years ago, following this bug report: https://sourceforge.net/p/ubuntuzilla/support-requests/3/
        Haven't kept up with the iceweasel drama, is iceweasel still a thing even? I can take out the iceweasel provide, as long as it doesn't break anything else.

      Probably not so much. There must be some historical reason why the
      hunspell-en-us pkg of 2007 thought it should conflict with the then
      entire output of the Mozilla Foundation, and why it hasn't been updated
      since:

      $ apt-cache depends hunspell-en-us
      hunspell-en-us
      Depends: dictionaries-common
      Conflicts: firefox
      Conflicts: <iceape-browser>
      Conflicts: <icedove>
      Conflicts: <iceweasel>
      Conflicts: <libxul0d>
      Conflicts: <mozilla-browser>
      Conflicts: myspell-en-us
      Conflicts: <openoffice.org>
      Conflicts: <openoffice.org-core>
      Conflicts: thunderbird
      Suggests: hunspell
      Suggests: <openoffice.org-hunspell>
      Suggests: <openoffice.org-core>
      Replaces: myspell-en-us
      Replaces: <openoffice.org-spellcheck-en-us></openoffice.org-spellcheck-en-us></openoffice.org-core></openoffice.org-hunspell></openoffice.org-core></openoffice.org></mozilla-browser></libxul0d></iceweasel></icedove></iceape-browser>

      But unless I want to install iceweasel I don't care about the purported
      "conflict" so I suggest the problem is 60% hunspell and 40% gdebi.

      1. good :)

      2. Well... this project just repackages the binaries built by mozilla, so presumably they only rely on things that are available by default, and include everything else.

      As I guessed. From
      https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/system-requirements:
      "Linux
      The following library versions (or compatible) are required:
      GTK+ 3.4 or higher
      GLib 2.22 or higher
      Pango 1.14 or higher
      X.Org 1.0 or higher (Recommended: 1.7 or higher)
      libstdc++ 4.6.1 or higher
      Recommended for optimal functionality:
      NetworkManager 0.7 or higher
      DBus 1.0 or higher
      GNOME 2.16 or higher"

      I think this means, in terms of Ubuntu packages:

      Depends: libgtk-3-0 (>=3.4)
      Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>=2.22)
      Depends: libpango-1.0-0 (>=1.14)
      Depends: xorg (>=1.7) | xorg (>=1.0)
      Depends: libstdc++6 (>=4.6.1)
      Suggests: dbus (>=1.0)
      Suggests: network-manager (>=0.7)
      Suggests: gnome (>=2.16)

      Thanks for your work.
      /df

      --
      London SW6
      UK

       

  • nanotube

    nanotube - 2020-11-15

    Hi Dirk,
    Well, seamonkey just came out with new release. I took out the iceweasel dependency, so hopefully at least that issue is solved.
    I don't know that I can do anything about your download problems - I have not been able to replicate any issues on my end.
    Cheers,
    Daniel

     

    • Dirk Fieldhouse

      Dirk Fieldhouse - 2020-11-15

      On 15/11/2020 17:42, nanotube wrote:

      Well, seamonkey just came out with new release. I took out the iceweasel dependency, so hopefully at least that issue is solved.
      I don't know that I can do anything about your download problems - I have not been able to replicate any issues on my end.

      Thanks, the 2.53.5 update went fine, at least as far as downloading and
      installing ...

      /df

      --
      London SW6
      UK

       

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