[Bug 1875498] Re: smart-notifier installs, but has missing requirments

[Colin Hemming]

@Gunnar

Is the report better now, or still need fixing? I read the link you sent
me, but while it may be very technical, it's far from clear to a user at
my level. This is the first bug I've reported from scratch, so I'm happy
to learn, just ignorant! :)

Sorry for the delay in response, my ISP managed to corrupt my e-mail
configuration and that took many days to resolve.

** Description changed:

  I installed this in a fresh install of Xubuntu 20.04.1 and, while it
  installs, the file to which it links:
  
  /usr/bin/smart-notifier -> ../share/smart-notifier/smart-notifier
  
  does not exist, so it does not function at all!
  
  --
+ $ sudo apt install --reinstall smart-notifier
+ Reading package lists... Done
+ Building dependency tree       
+ Reading state information... Done
+ The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
+   gnome-software-common libappstream-glib8
+ Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
+ 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 4 not to upgrade.
+ Need to get 6,812 B of archives.
+ After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
+ Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 smart-notifier all 0.28-5build1 [6,812 B]
+ Fetched 6,812 B in 0s (102 kB/s)          
+ (Reading database ... 318601 files and directories currently installed.)
+ Preparing to unpack .../smart-notifier_0.28-5build1_all.deb ...
+ Unpacking smart-notifier (0.28-5build1) over (0.28-5build1) ...
+ Setting up smart-notifier (0.28-5build1) ...
+ Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.16-2ubuntu2) ...
+ Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
+ 
+ $ ls -ls /usr/share/smart*
+ total 12
+ 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  166 Oct  9  2019 smartd-runner
+ 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5583 Mar 21 12:29 smartd_warning.sh
+ 
+ --
+ 
  Description:	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  Release:	20.04
  
  smart-notifier:
-   Installed: 0.28-5build1
-   Candidate: 0.28-5build1
-   Version table:
-  *** 0.28-5build1 500
-         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
-         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: 0.28-5build1
+   Candidate: 0.28-5build1
+   Version table:
+  *** 0.28-5build1 500
+         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
+         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Title:
  smart-notifier installs, but has missing requirments

Status in smart-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in smart-notifier source package in Focal:
  In Progress
Status in smart-notifier source package in Groovy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I installed this in a fresh install of Xubuntu 20.04.1 and, while it
  installs, the file to which it links:

  /usr/bin/smart-notifier -> ../share/smart-notifier/smart-notifier

  does not exist, so it does not function at all!

  --
  $ sudo apt install --reinstall smart-notifier
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    gnome-software-common libappstream-glib8
  Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
  0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 4 not to upgrade.
  Need to get 6,812 B of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 smart-notifier all 0.28-5build1 [6,812 B]
  Fetched 6,812 B in 0s (102 kB/s)          
  (Reading database ... 318601 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../smart-notifier_0.28-5build1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking smart-notifier (0.28-5build1) over (0.28-5build1) ...
  Setting up smart-notifier (0.28-5build1) ...
  Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.16-2ubuntu2) ...
  Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

  $ ls -ls /usr/share/smart*
  total 12
  4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  166 Oct  9  2019 smartd-runner
  8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5583 Mar 21 12:29 smartd_warning.sh

  --

  Description:	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  Release:	20.04

  smart-notifier:
    Installed: 0.28-5build1
    Candidate: 0.28-5build1
    Version table:
   *** 0.28-5build1 500
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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