ACK: [PATCH 0/1] LP#1489487 -- linux-meta: is uninstallable in trusty-proposed

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Thu Aug 27 16:03:18 UTC 2015


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 04:41:43PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> It turns out we have some badly linked meta packages in trusty.
> Specifically the *-hwe-* auto upgrade variants exist in some flavours
> which do not exist on all architectures.  After some discussion it was
> decided the -virtual variants should point to -generic where there is no
> -virtual binaries.
> 
> Also there are are no powerpc binaries for -utopic so it makes no sense
> to have *-hwe-* variants on that arch.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to trusty.  We may want to upload just this change
> directly into trusty-proposed to allow the packages to become installable.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: fix linux-*-hwe-* linkage
> 
>  meta-source/debian/changelog      |  7 +++++++
>  meta-source/debian/control.common | 12 ++++++------
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.5.0
> 
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Not sure what a "dandling" package is but we better get rid of them.

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