[SRU][K][PATCH 0/1] linux-tools-common should provide bpftool

Andrea Righi andrea.righi at canonical.com
Mon Nov 7 10:34:32 UTC 2022


[Impact]

In Debian, 'bpftool' is provided as a separate binary package.

There are other packages in the archive (i.e., bpfcc,
lava-dispatcher-host) which reference this package.

Rather than patching each package in Ubuntu to know the different Ubuntu
name for the package (linux-tools-common), we should make
linux-tools-common provide bpftool.

[Fix]

Add 'Provides: bpftool' to linux-tools-common.

[Test case]

Install any package from the archive that requires bpftool.

[Regression potential]

We could introduce potential package dependency regressions with this
change, however we are not introducing additional dependencies and
the fix allows to avoid patching a lot of other packages from the
archives (potentially introducing more regressions).




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