[Bug 850416] Re: plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text having the same version number ...

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 03:25:24PM -0000, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> From the version numbers I assume plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text derived
> from plymouth-0.8.2. Thus the documentation for plymouth-0.8.2 should
> suffer.

I don't know what you mean to say here.

> Now change the first two to read the same as the ubuntu-text.plymouth
> found on natty (copy should suffice).

I.e., mangle files that are installed as part of the package.

This is unsupported.

> Recreate your initrd, reboot. If the description for plymouth-0.8.2
apply,

It is not "plymouth 0.8.2".  You are truncating version numbers, ignoring
the fact that changes are made to the software in the package revisions. 
The Ubuntu text theme is not part of the upstream plymouth 0.8.2 release,
and is maintained *entirely* via package patch level.

> both, lucid and maverick should show a text splash telling about "Ubuntu
> 11.04".  They do not.  Both keep displaying "Ubuntu 10.04" and "Ubuntu
> 10.10".

Yes, because the feature of supporting text configuration via the theme file
was not introduced until the version included in Ubuntu 11.04.

There is no bug here.

> If you say: they are different, why arn't three different descriptions
> available? Only one description is available, covering, at least for
> lucid and maverick, features only implemented by the natty version?

I don't know what description you are expecting to change, but it's clear
that whatever you're trying to accomplish is not supported.

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Title:
  plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text having the same version number ...

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The package plymouth-theme-ubunut-text has the same version number
  over a variety of Ubuntu versions:

  10.04.3:  0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2
  10.10:     0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2
  11.04:     0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2
  11.10:     0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2

  but looking at the binaries there are differences:
  10.04.3: no configurable options (section "[ubuntu-text]" in ubuntu-text.plymouth). All strings are hardcoded within /lib/plymouth/ubuntu-text.so
  10.10: same as above, but created with an other compiler(?).
  11.04: configurable options.

  Looking close to the binaries, they do not corespond to what is loaded
  by "apt-get source plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text". This delivers the
  actual sources, with configurable options from file "ubuntu-
  text.plymouth".

  How come all those binary packages are flaging the same version
  number, but clearly compiled from different sources?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text 0.8.2-2ubuntu23
  Uname: Linux 3.0.4 x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Sep 14 23:13:26 2011
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/wheat/wheat.plymouth
  MachineType: Acer, inc. TravelMate 6292
  PccardctlIdent:
   Socket 0:
     no product info available
  PccardctlStatus:
   Socket 0:
     no card
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.4 root=UUID=e8a84ed2-696e-4c59-b2c6-0df091211846 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-08-02 (43 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 01/11/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
  dmi.bios.version: S1.3502
  dmi.board.name: Victoria
  dmi.board.vendor: Acer, Inc.
  dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.chassis.type: 1
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer, Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrS1.3502:bd01/11/2008:svnAcer,inc.:pnTravelMate6292:pvrNotApplicable:rvnAcer,Inc.:rnVictoria:rvrNotApplicable:cvnAcer,Inc.:ct1:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: TravelMate 6292
  dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer, inc.

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