I have a similar problem on ascii:

upower : Depends: libimobiledevice4 (>= 0.9.7) but it is not installable
Depends: libplist2 (>= 1.11) but it is not installable

Looking into this, ascii has libimobiledevice6 and libplist3 - so after Stable, both libraries have had soname bumps (note that this is my first time seriously looking into the soname concept).

Comparing the actual version requirements of upower in Testing VS ascii, they are the same - >= 0.9.7 for libimobiledevice and >= 1.11 for libplist - presumably if the libraries had changed in a meaningful way since the current Devuan version of upower, the version dependency would have been changed in the Debian Testing package - and it hasn't (or perhaps this versioning dependency isn't properly maintained?).

Would it therefore make sense to just rebuild the upower package in ascii/ceres and depend on the new package names automatically?

I have rebuilt, it installs and appears to work (I can see battery charge status, however this does differ from the XFCE4 battery monitor plugin I use), I can restart and suspend OK.

I don't have (or want) any Apple devices to test with mind, both of the dependencies are for interacting with iphones, ipads etc.

Is there anything further I can do?

Ping, its been 2 months since I updated this?

It is still a dependency problem for ascii and in the following the whole xfce4 installation.

assigned to @OmegaPhil

mentioned in commit a3787520

I have just confirmed on ascii-proposed that a rebuild was all that was needed - upower is now installable. I have pushed to ascii and unstable (hopefully the latter maps to ceres...) so this should be available to people shortly.

@CenturionDan : Incorporation into ascii and ceres is pending on hopefully the last build screwup being sorted: #18 (closed)

And ascii is finally updated in the real repo - resolving this ticket.

closed