unable to install enigmail in debian-9 template

[Josefa Hays]

I've been using the Enigmail-plugin for many years. However I just
realized it had disappeared from Thunderbird. When trying to reinstall
it in the Debian-9 template I get the following error:

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$ sudo apt-get install enigmail
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
enigmail : Depends: thunderbird (>= 1:52.0) but it is not going to be
installed or
icedove (>= 1:52.0)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
=======


I realize this is (probably) a Debian-problem, but I cannot solve this.
Any quick-fixes out there would be much appreciated, I need my crypto up
and running again :)

Best regards,
Josefa

[Holger Levsen]

hi,

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 05:05:54PM -0700, Josefa Hays wrote:
> I've been using the Enigmail-plugin for many years. However I just
> realized it had disappeared from Thunderbird. When trying to reinstall
> it in the Debian-9 template I get the following error:

[...]

> I realize this is (probably) a Debian-problem, but I cannot solve this.
> Any quick-fixes out there would be much appreciated, I need my crypto up
> and running again :)

yes, this is a Debian problem indeed and should hopefully be fixed real
soon now. Relevant bugs are:

https://bugs.debian.org/910398 gnupg2 in stretch needs to be updated to be usable with enigmail 2.0
https://bugs.debian.org/909000 enigmail needs to be updated to version 2.0

the cause for this is the firefox/thunderbird 60 update which is caused
by the web being broken these days.

*I hope* that these fixes land in stretch/Debian 9 in October 2018, but
we will see.


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cheers,
Holger

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