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fortune-mod package

Package fortune-mod suggests installing non-existing package xcontrib

Bug #99495 reported by irarseil
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fortune-mod (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
fortune-mod (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: fortune-mod

Package fortune-mod suggests installing non-existing package xcontrib. It will install because xcontrib is not a prerequisite, it is just a suggestion. I don't know enough about the apt packaging system to submit a patch, but I think the only thing needed to correct it is changing the dependencies of the package.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 31 18:59:18 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.57.11.1ubuntu12
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcCwd: /home/irarseil
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux irarseil-desktop 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/fortune-mod
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irarseil (irarspam) wrote :
Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in fortune-mod:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)
Changed in fortune-mod:
assignee: nobody → nick.ellery
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Nick Ellery (nick.ellery) wrote :

Here's the debdiff, subscribing u-m-s.

Changed in fortune-mod:
assignee: nick.ellery → nobody
status: In Progress → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in fortune-mod:
status: Unknown → New
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This seems incorrect. The changelog entry for the introduction of this xcontrib suggestion says:

  * Added a menu entry for fortune. The X11 version of the menu entry
    uses xmessage, bringing in a new Suggests: on xcontrib.
    (closes: #46894)

Doesn't that imply that now we should suggest x11-utils (which contains xmessage) instead?

Changed in fortune-mod:
assignee: nobody → kamion
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Nick Ellery (nick.ellery) wrote :

Hi, here's an updated patch.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Thanks. I've dropped the Standards-Version change per this comment in the Ubuntu policy manual (http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/ubuntu-policy/):

  Ubuntu: Packages should not include the Ubuntu revision of the policy manual (e.g. "ubuntu1" in "3.8.0.1ubuntu1") in their Standards-Version field. This tends to create unnecessary diffs relative to Debian. For the same reason, Ubuntu developers should not generally change the Standards-Version field in packages originating in Debian.

I also added this bug number to the changelog.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package fortune-mod - 1:1.99.1-3.1ubuntu2

---------------
fortune-mod (1:1.99.1-3.1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Remove xcontrib from fortune-mod suggests and added x11-utils to satisfy
      xmessage dependency (LP: #99495).

 -- Nick Ellery <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:55:16 -0700

Changed in fortune-mod:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in fortune-mod (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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