lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin suggests deprecated package

[Christian S.]

lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin recommends package indicator-messages-gtk2 but this package is not available since trusty at least.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin 0.9.3-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Config_Home_Lubuntu:
 [Command]
 Logout=lxsession-default quit
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sun May 6 11:17:55 2018
SourcePackage: lxpanel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

Since at least Trusty, lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin (which does not appear to be provided upstream), suggests indicator-messages-gtk2, which is not available. It also suggests indicator-application-gtk2 which has a hard requirement for gtk2 while indicator-application is gtk3. It seems that the goal was to split out the gtk2/3 versions. However, it doesn't seem that indicator-messages (a package which is available) has a hard requirement for gtk at all, so they may have just dropped indicator-messages-gtk2.

That said, I think the solution here is to replace indicator-messages-gtk2 with indicator-messages but it will need some testing.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

Christian,

I created a package that seems to at least successfully install indicator-messages and doesn't seem to break anything but I'm not seeing an option in the plugin to actually add messages and it's not clear to me that the applet is collecting anything. You might want to try it out yourself here:
https://launchpad.net/~wxl/+archive/ubuntu/testy-testy