[Bug 1912496] Re: update-notifier-common pulls in ubuntu-drivers-common including on server where it is not required

[Robie Basak]

Hello Robie, or anyone else affected,

Accepted update-notifier into focal-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-
notifier/3.192.30.5 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

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advance for helping!

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** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal

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Title:
  update-notifier-common pulls in ubuntu-drivers-common including on
  server where it is not required

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in update-notifier source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [ Description ]

  update-notifier 3.192.37 (https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
  /update-notifier/commit/?id=f766bda4ab5032a5af84311fabd2e6d9e56b3254)
  added a dependency on ubuntu-drivers-common, which causes ubuntu-
  server to bloat, for example by pulling in alsa-utils.

  [ Fix ]

  Move the dependency to update-notifier, which contains /usr/bin
  /update-notifier and also the dependency on update-manager, which is
  launched after we run the script which uses ubuntu-drivers-common.

  [ QA ]

  1. Make sure ubuntu-drivers-common isn't on the referenced server image.
  2. Make sure it is still on images where update-notifier is installed.

  [ Where problems could occur ]

  If we lose the dependency, then update-manager will not be able to
  auto launch, since we require it to be available to run a script
  before auto launching.

  [ Original description ]

  I don't know if there's an easy solution to this, or if we just need
  to live with it. If the latter, this bug can be Won't Fix'd.

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