thunderbird extension package should allow thunderbird as dependency
on ubuntu saucy, the bitmask thunderbird extension package is not installable, cause the dependency package is called "thunderbird" instead of "icedove".
--- ~ » sudo apt-get install xul-ext-bitmask 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: xul-ext-bitmask : Depends: icedove (>= 24.0~b1) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. --- ~ » dpkg -l thunderbird 100 ↵ Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=============================-===================-===================-=============================================================== ii thunderbird 1:24.2.0+build1-0ub amd64 Email, RSS and newsgroup client with integrated spam filter --- ~ »
(from redmine: created on 2013-12-24, closed on 2014-01-08)