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Please remove batmand-gateway-(source|dkms) from the Ubuntu archives (FTBFS)

Bug #789268 reported by deleted
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: batmand

batmand-gateway-* was removed from Debian because it is unmaintained and upstream source code doesn't work with newer kernels. Therefore, it is impossible to use this package with the kernel provided by the Distribution. This problem is already present in natty.

That means that I request a removal from Natty. I prove my point with bugs like #690722, #692659, #716562, #729703, #737083, #773455, #774403, #776968, . Here is also the removal from debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/batmand/news/20110520T191858Z.html

The binary packages batmand-gateway-dkms and batmand-gateway-source should be removed

deleted (to-delete)
summary: - Remove kernel module packages with FTBFS
+ Please remove batmand-gateway-(source|dkms) from the Ubuntu archives
+ (FTBFS)
Scott Kitterman (kitterman)
Changed in batmand (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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deleted (to-delete) wrote :

Is there any way to continue here?

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This has been done in oneiric: batmand 0.3.2-10 no longer ships these two binary packages.

For Natty, this is not a matter for the Ubuntu archive administrators since the batmand source package in natty still builds these two binary packages; we don't do partial removals of some binaries from a source package that still builds them. Furthermore, we have never yet removed a package from a stable release, and don't actually have much of a mechanism for doing so (we might invent one if there were a credible and substantial legal problem). I suggest that an effective way to proceed might perhaps be to propose a stable release update that turns these packages into dummy packages that do nothing in particular except perhaps display a note to the user about the problem. For how to go about doing that, see:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess

I'm unsubscribing ubuntu-archive for the time being, since there's nothing this team can do. Feel free to resubscribe us if you have an action we can take.

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Sven Eckelmann (sven-eckelmann) wrote :

Newest Ubuntu version doesn't provide these packages. I will close this bug for the current Ubuntu version

Changed in batmand (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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