Bug#1003874: falkon: Package falkon is not in repository although it is available for armhf on Debian

[Adolf Winterer]

Package: falkon
Severity: normal
Tags: a11y
X-Debbugs-Cc: adolf.j....@inn-salzach.de

Dear Maintainer,

ng to install the web browser Falkon failed due to non-existence of the
package in the repository.

* What led up to the situation?
Tried to install a few well liked KDE applications on my Raspberry Pi 4 4GB,
which worked mostly well (e.g. with Dolphin, Konsole, Okular), but failed
to install the Falkon web browser due to non-existence in the repository.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Looked up the package with apt search and found the package to not be existent
in the repository.
Checked with Debian package directory and found that the package exists also
for the armhf architecture. Therefore there seems to be no fundamental problem
building and packaging for armhf.
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/falkon
* What was the outcome of this action?
Currently using different browser as workaround as long as Falkon is not
available (yet).
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Expected the package to be existent in the repository and a successful install.

Content of my sources.list file:
deb tor://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ bullseye main contrib non-free rpi
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
# deb-src tor://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ bullseye main contrib non-free rpi

Are there plans to include packages like Falkon into the repository? Are there
any technical issues which block the package from inclusion?

Best Regards,
Adolf

-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye
Architecture: armv7l

Kernel: Linux 5.10.63-v7l+ (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

[Georges Khaznadar]

Dear Adolf,

I suspect some misconfiguration on your machine? The package for armhf
does exist in Debian space, please check it at
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/armhf/falkon/download

Best regards, Georges.

Adolf Winterer a écrit :

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[Adolf Winterer]

Dear Georges,

yes, there is some kind of misconfiguration and I fell into the trap.
Please accept my apologies for this.

What happened?
Running Raspbian (now Raspberry Pi OS) on my Raspberry Pi 4 I noticed
that some KDE packages such as Falkon are not available in the Raspbian
repository although the packages are available in the Debian repository
(as you correctly pointed out).

So I wanted to report the missing packages to the maintainer of the
Raspbian repository. To do this I used the reportbug package, which was
installed from the Raspbian repository. To my surprise the report went
to you, one of the Debian maintainers, instead of your colleague of the
Raspbian repository.

Apparently the reportbug package had been included in Raspbian without
changing the settings for the destination used for reports. As I found
no reference regarding the receiving party in the RC file and /etc/
reportbug file, this seems to be a hardcoded behaviour, which may not be
(easily) adaptable.

Please close the bug ticket, because it is not relevant to Debian. Thank
you.

Best Regards,
Adolf