[Bug 1548480] Re: 95packagekit sleep hook weirdly installed in a subdirectory is ignored

[Dirk F]

So if I understand correctly, the upstream version 0.8.17 currently
packaged in 16.04 is "prehistoric"  (and my version in 14.04 LTS even
more so) but the active branch based on upstream version 1.1.0-1 that
you (Matthias) are working on is not?

In that case for 16.04 Ubuntu could do one of these:

a) add a patch to move /usr/lib/pm-
utils/sleep.d/95packagekit/95packagekit to /usr/lib/pm-
utils/sleep.d/95packagekit (or /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/45packagekit)
(NB check it gets marked executable), or

b) pull in a less prehistoric version of Packagekit that doesn't have
that file, or

c) fix pm-utils bug 1548486 and ignore this bug until (b), or

d) add a patch to remove /usr/lib/pm-
utils/sleep.d/95packagekit/95packagekit.

The value of the 95packagekit hook (which tries to provoke PackageKit to
refresh its cache on resuming) seems questionable, since it doesn't
appear to have been working for several years and isn't in the later
versions.

So (c) or (d) seem like the best options, with (c) requiring no work at
all for PackageKit.

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Title:
  95packagekit sleep hook weirdly installed in a subdirectory is ignored

Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The 95packagekit sleep hook provided by packagekit is installed in a subdirectory: 
      /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95packagekit/95packagekit

  This has two effects:

  1    the hook is not run;

  2    owing to a bug in pm-utils, separately reported, the previous
  hook is run for a second time instead.

  If #1 was actually the desired effect, the hook should have been
  stored as /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95packagekit~ or just omitted.

  If the hook is manually installed as /usr/lib/pm-
  utils/sleep.d/95packagekit, it runs as expected (although the nature
  of the hook's operation means that it may have no obvious effect).

  This issue was observed in 14.04, packagekit 0.8.12-1ubuntu5;
  apparently was OK in 12.04. A packaging bug seems to have appeared
  when 95packagekit was updated in revision 1.2.10.

  Additionally, the hook 95packagekit is incorrectly numbered according
  to the pm-utils HOWTO.hooks convention and should apparently be eg
  45packagekit.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: packagekit 0.8.12-1ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-29.34~14.04.1-generic 4.2.8-ckt3
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-29-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Feb 22 19:12:48 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-21 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20160217.1)
  SourcePackage: packagekit
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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