Package: irda-utils
Version: 0.9.16-10
Hello,
I noticed that one of my unstable laptops was not updating to latest
irda-utils. This has already been reported but seems not to be fixed:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267278
The laptop was installed from woody CD's over a year ago, before sarge was
released, and used as unstable since then. Therefore I think this bug
affects all irda users who upgraded from woody. The good side is, that
at least on this Thinkpad t20 IrDA worked all the time and only
upgrades are not being applied.
I've newer played with dummy/virtual/transitional packages before, but
the attached patch seems to fix the upgrade path. The patch tries to
properly conflict with irda-common and irda-tools and adds them as
virtual packages which depend on the latest irda-utils.
In my admittedly complicated environment the result looks like this:
$ apt-cache policy irda-utils
irda-utils:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.9.16-10
Version table:
0.9.16.mkr1 0
500 file: .// Packages
0.9.16-10 0
500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main Packages
990 http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main Packages
0.9.16-10 0
500 file: .// Packages
0.9.16-9 0
500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Packages
$ apt-cache policy irda-common
irda-common:
Installed: 0.9.14-17
Candidate: 0.9.16.mkr1
Version table:
0.9.16.mkr1 0
500 file: .// Packages
*** 0.9.14-17 0
500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org woody/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy irda-tools
irda-tools:
Installed: 0.9.14-17
Candidate: 0.9.16.mkr1
Version table:
0.9.16.mkr1 0
500 file: .// Packages
*** 0.9.14-17 0
500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org woody/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
# apt-get dist-upgrade -s -V -u
...
Investigating irda-utils
Package irda-utils has broken dep on irda-common
Considering irda-common 0 as a solution to irda-utils 1
Added irda-common to the remove list
Considering irda-common 0 as a solution to irda-utils 1
Package irda-utils has broken dep on irda-tools
Considering irda-tools 0 as a solution to irda-utils 1
Added irda-tools to the remove list
Considering irda-tools 0 as a solution to irda-utils 1
Fixing irda-utils via remove of irda-common
Fixing irda-utils via remove of irda-tools
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
irda-common (0.9.16.mkr1)
irda-tools (0.9.16.mkr1)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
irda-utils (0.9.16-10)
...
Remv irda-common [0.9.14-17]
Remv irda-tools [0.9.14-17]
...
Inst irda-utils (0.9.16-10 Debian:testing)
...
Conf irda-utils (0.9.16-10 Debian:testing)
...
# apt-get dist-upgrade
...
$ apt-cache policy irda-utils
irda-utils:
Installed: 0.9.16-10
Candidate: 0.9.16-10
Version table:
0.9.16.mkr1 0
500 file: .// Packages
*** 0.9.16-10 0
500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main Packages
990 http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.9.16-10 0
500 file: .// Packages
0.9.16-9 0
500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Packages
$ apt-cache policy irda-common
irda-common:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.9.16.mkr1
Version table:
0.9.16.mkr1 0
500 file: .// Packages
0.9.14-17 0
500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org woody/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy irda-tools
irda-tools:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.9.16.mkr1
Version table:
0.9.16.mkr1 0
500 file: .// Packages
0.9.14-17 0
500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org woody/main Packages
The local repository for self compiled packages and unstable pinning
complicate things a bit, so this defenately needs to be tested by
someone else too. The part where apt debug complains about "broken dep"
is a mystery to me. Maybe it's part of the virtual package magic?
Downgrading from unstable to woody showed a problem though:
# apt-get install irda-common=0.9.14-17 irda-tools=0.9.14-17
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Starting
Starting 2
Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
irda-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
irda-common irda-tools
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 52.4kB of archives.
After unpacking 36.9kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.fi.debian.org woody/main irda-common 0.9.14-17 [24.8kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.fi.debian.org woody/main irda-tools 0.9.14-17 [27.6kB]
Fetched 52.4kB in 0s (67.2kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule is deprecated, please use
Debconf::Client::C
onfModule instead.
(Reading database ... 172136 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing irda-utils ...
Stopping IrDA service: irattach.
Selecting previously deselected package irda-common.
(Reading database ... 172112 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking irda-common (from .../irda-common_0.9.14-17_i386.deb) ...
Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule is deprecated, please use
Debconf::Client::ConfModule instead.
Selecting previously deselected package irda-tools.
Unpacking irda-tools (from .../irda-tools_0.9.14-17_i386.deb) ...
Setting up irda-common (0.9.14-17) ...
Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule is deprecated, please use
Debconf::Client::ConfModule instead.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/irda-common.postinst: line 115: /etc/init.d/irda: No
such file or directory
dpkg: error processing irda-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up irda-tools (0.9.14-17) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
irda-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
But this downgrade path is not supported anyway, I suppose.
-Mikko
diff -u irda-utils-0.9.16/debian/changelog
irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/changelog
--- irda-utils-0.9.16/debian/changelog 2005-12-14 13:58:47.000000000 +0200
+++ irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/changelog 2005-12-14 19:59:14.000000000
+0200
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+irda-utils (0.9.16.mkr1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Try to fix woody to sarge and later upgrade path with dummy
+ irda-common and irda-tools packages which depend on
+ irda-utils.
+
+ -- Mikko Rapeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:58:37 +0200
+
irda-utils (0.9.16-10) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/preinst: Fixed script to avoid failing when
diff -u irda-utils-0.9.16/debian/control irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/control
--- irda-utils-0.9.16/debian/control 2005-12-14 13:58:47.000000000 +0200
+++ irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/control 2005-12-14 19:58:06.000000000
+0200
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
Package: irda-utils
Conflicts: irda-common, irda-tools
Replaces: irda-common, irda-tools
-Provides: irda-tools
+Provides: irda-common, irda-tools
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, makedev (>= 2.3.1-66),
module-init-tools
Recommends: ircp, openobex-apps
@@ -22,3 +22,30 @@
Authors: Dag Brattli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and
Jean Tourrilhes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Homepage: http://irda.sourceforge.net
+
+Package: irda-common
+Architecture: any
+Depends: irda-utils
+Description: irda-utils transitional package to fix a packaging bug
+ This package contains userspace utilities to manage and handle infrared
+ devices. It includes irattach, findchip, irdadump, irdaping and irpsion5.
+ OBEX tools are removed since 0.9.5. If you need to use IrOBEX,
+ use openobex-apps package.
+ .
+ This package is a dummy package which replaces irda-common and
+ irda-tools packages in woody with irda-utils package in sarge and later.
+ The irda-common in woody Replaces: and Conflicts: with irda-utils,
+ so this transitional package is required.
+
+Package: irda-tools
+Architecture: any
+Depends: irda-utils
+Description: irda-utils transitional package to fix a packaging bug
+ This package contains userspace utilities to manage and handle infrared
+ devices. It includes irattach, findchip, irdadump, irdaping and irpsion5.
+ OBEX tools are removed since 0.9.5. If you need to use IrOBEX,
+ use openobex-apps package.
+ .
+ This package is a dummy package which replaces irda-common and
+ irda-tools packages in woody with irda-utils package in sarge and later.
+ The irda-common in woody Replaces: and Conflicts: with irda-utils,
Only in irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/: files
Only in irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/: irda-common
Only in irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/: irda-tools
Only in irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/: irda-utils
Only in irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/: irda-utils.postinst.debhelper
Only in irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/: irda-utils.postrm.debhelper
Only in irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/: irda-utils.prerm.debhelper
Only in irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/: irda-utils.substvars
Common subdirectories: irda-utils-0.9.16/debian/po and
irda-utils-0.9.16.mkr1/debian/po
