Re: bug: vorta 0.8.7-1~bpo11+1 - error on startup: The 'secretstorage' distribution was not found and is required by vorta

[Axel Wikström <axel.wikstrom@gmail.com>]

Thank you, Nicholas!

I indeed meant bullseye and not buster, I keep mixing up the names.

- Axel

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 1:43 PM Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Axel,
>
> Thank you for the bug report, reply follows inline:
>
> Axel Wikström <axel.wikstrom@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Installing vorta from buster-backports on a fresh Debian 11 install
> > with XFCE, and trying to start it from the command line yields this:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/vorta", line 33, in <module>
> >     sys.exit(load_entry_point('vorta==0.8.7', 'gui_scripts', 'vorta')())
>
> Given that you say a Debian 11 install, with vorta 0.8.7, it sounds like
> you are using bullseye-backports rather than buster-backports.
>
> > line 886, in require
> >     needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
> >   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py",
> > line 772, in resolve
> >     raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
> > pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'secretstorage' distribution
> > was not found and is required by vorta
> >
>  _______________________________________________/\
> /This indicates the error/
>
> 'apt search secretstorage' finds "python3-secretstorage", which is the
> missing package.  This wasn't an issue with vorta 0.7.5, which shipped
> with Bullseye (Debian 11), and you can blame git commit:8cb515c5 which
> removed "python3-secretstorage" as a required dependency.  While that
> action is correct for Bookworm (Debian 12) it is not correct for
> bullseye-backports.
>
> I've uploaded a fix, but if you can't wait, you can achieve the intended
> effect immediately with:
>
>     sudo apt install python3-secretstorage
>
> Regards,
> Nicholas