Bug #15189

Figure out what to do with optional Electrum dependencies on Buster

Added by intrigeri 2018-01-17 18:31:37 . Updated 2019-04-05 10:15:13 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Tails_4.0
Start date:
2018-01-17
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Debian
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Electrum
Deliverable for:

Description

See commit:cb392c17300569f3daac588c23c2d5eef5651d4b. Let’s just wait a bit, by the time we’re closer to Tails 4.0 things should be back in shape, hopefully, if someone cares about it enough in Debian :)

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #15390: TREZOR hardware wallet support is gone since Electrum was updated to 3.x Resolved 2018-03-09
Related to Tails - Bug #15452: Check the status of Electrum qrcode support since we upgraded it to 3.x Rejected 2018-03-23

History

#1 Updated by s7r 2018-01-19 01:56:48

intrigeri wrote:
> See commit:cb392c17300569f3daac588c23c2d5eef5651d4b. Let’s just wait a bit, by the time we’re closer to Tails 4.0 things should be back in shape, hopefully, if someone cares about it enough in Debian :)

qt5 is recommends because Electrum can be run without a GUI with CLI (console / command line mode)

the rest of optional dependencies are for hardware wallets support (like trezor). Currently there’s a bug in python3-trezor that prevents it from migrating to buster, but once it’s fixed it will migrate. Same applies for stretch-backports.

So, all the optional dependencies will soon be where they should.

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2018-01-19 07:09:19

> So, all the optional dependencies will soon be where they should.

Thanks. But there’s also python3-zbar, that does not exist in Debian yet. In current Tails we do ship python-zbar so I assume that not having python3-zbar would introduce a regression.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2018-03-23 06:46:04

  • related to Bug #15390: TREZOR hardware wallet support is gone since Electrum was updated to 3.x added

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2018-03-23 06:49:30

  • related to Bug #15452: Check the status of Electrum qrcode support since we upgraded it to 3.x added

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2018-03-23 06:53:46

  • Assignee set to s7r
  • Type of work changed from Wait to Debian

Re-added python3-trezor on feature/buster but I believe the python3-zbar is still an issue; I suspect it actually affects Tails 3.6 already so perhaps that’ll be fixed outside of this ticket (Bug #15452).

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2018-03-23 07:52:00

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress

Applied in changeset commit:72c2b6a1d4e169d631b975af85b869be641e4c8e.

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2019-02-11 07:52:25

zbar “does not have an active upstream for a long time” and the Debian package was orphaned.

#8 Updated by s7r 2019-03-17 00:53:49

All dependencies as well as hardware wallet support (except udev rules of course) shall not be needed any longer or represent an issue for us if we decide to ship Electrum tool as an AppImage as per Bug #16564.

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2019-04-05 10:15:13

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
  • Assignee deleted (s7r)

TREZOR support is back and zbar is in a bad shape upstream (and not in 3.x anymore for a while) ⇒ that’s probably the best we can do for 4.0.