[Bug 41496] Re: [Bug 41496] [UNMETDEPS] xsim has unmet dependencies

[Henning Sprang]

Quoting Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com>:

> Public bug reported:
> 
> Affects: fai (Ubuntu)
>        Severity: Normal
>        Priority: (none set)
>          Status: Confirmed
> 
> 
> Description:
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>  affects distros/ubuntu/fai
>  status confirmed
>  subscribe motu
> 
> 
> text:
> A run of 
>   LC_ALL=C apt-cache -i unmet | grep ^Package | cut -d' ' -f2 | sort -u | \
>      xargs apt-cache showsrc | grep Package | sed 's/Package\:\ //g' | sort
> -u
> indicates that the source package fai has binary packages that are not 
> installable at the moment.
> 
> Please have a look and make sure it's installable again.

Maybe it would be useful to describe here _what_ binary package is meant here. I
don't know what xsim, as mentioned in the subject of this message, has to do
with FAI.

The Ubuntu team decided to remove foreign kernels, and FAI recommands the
fai-kernels package - is that what this bug is about?

Then only the Ubuntu developers can do something against that situtaion and
decide that the stuff needed fo fai-kernels get back into Ubuntu.
There is already a bug in launchpad about this IIRC.

For most users, this makes the FAI package delivered with Ubuntu very hard to
use, they need to download fai-kernels manually from the FAI download location
to get started easily with FAI.

Also, probably, the package fai-quickstart has unresolved dependencies like
that.

Henning


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[UNMETDEPS] xsim has unmet dependencies
https://launchpad.net/bugs/41496