Jockey has been superseded by software-properties, which now handles
third-party driver configuration.
** Changed in: jockey (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636418
Title:
update should clean up/warn about jockey
Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Binary package hint: jockey-common
Hi,
I'm a regular on #ubuntu+1 and a very common failure for people trying
alpha/betas over the last few releases
is that because the proprietary drivers aren't available until late in the
release cycle, people running with proprietary drivers
break everything and often end up unbootable or at a text prompt.
I think what should happen is that update-manager and do-release-
upgrade should check with jockey and see if the thing they are
upgrading to has the proprietary drivers, and if not then it should
.... hmm well there's a good question.
I can see that it should at least warn the user; but I see 2/3 possibilities:
1) The destination has the proprietary driver anyway - probably no need to
warn
2) The destination doesn't have the proprietary driver:
a) The destination now has an open driver - so the proprietary driver
should be removed, at least the user should be warned.
b) The destination doesn't have an open driver - the user needs warning,
probably the proprietary driver needs warning since it probably won't work on
the destination.
For (2) the user definitely needs to be warned, if it doesn't
autoremove the package for them it should give some explanation of
what to do.
Other side effects may need to happen as well, e.g. moving xorg.conf
out the way on removing fglrx.
Either way it needs something more than at the moment where people are
left with a broken system without realising it.
Dave
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