[Bug 1756846] Re: bridge-utils incompatible with ifupdown on bionic

[Alejandro Mery]

I had to install ifupdown manually, and got 0.8.17ubuntu1. everything
fine now, but shouldn't this package be pulled in automatically somehow?

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Title:
  bridge-utils incompatible with ifupdown on bionic

Status in ifupdown package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  $ apt-cache policy ifupdown bridge-utils
  ifupdown:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 0.8.16ubuntu2
    Version table:
       0.8.16ubuntu2 500
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  bridge-utils:
    Installed: 1.5-15ubuntu1
    Candidate: 1.5-15ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 1.5-15ubuntu1 500
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  $ sudo apt-get install ifupdown
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Suggested packages:
    rdnssd
  The following packages will be REMOVED
    bridge-utils
  The following NEW packages will be installed
    ifupdown
  0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 1 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
  Need to get 55.2 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 119 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 ifupdown amd64 0.8.16ubuntu2 [55.2 kB]
  Fetched 55.2 kB in 0s (1,280 kB/s)  
  (Reading database ... 251311 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing bridge-utils (1.5-15ubuntu1) ...
  Selecting previously unselected package ifupdown.
  (Reading database ... 251286 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../ifupdown_0.8.16ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking ifupdown (0.8.16ubuntu2) ...
  Setting up ifupdown (0.8.16ubuntu2) ...
  Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
  ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
  Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu4) ...
  Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.2-1) ...

  $ sudo apt-get install bridge-utils
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Suggested packages:
    ifupdown
  The following packages will be REMOVED
    ifupdown
  The following NEW packages will be installed
    bridge-utils
  0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 1 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
  Need to get 0 B/30.1 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 119 kB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  (Reading database ... 251318 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing ifupdown (0.8.16ubuntu2) ...
  Selecting previously unselected package bridge-utils.
  (Reading database ... 251286 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../bridge-utils_1.5-15ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking bridge-utils (1.5-15ubuntu1) ...
  Setting up bridge-utils (1.5-15ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.2-1) ...

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