Re: [Bug 1783455] Re: tlp shouldn't recommend linux-tools

2018-08-06 Thread Raphaël HALIMI
Le 05/08/2018 à 05:34, Adam Conrad a écrit : > And no, we're not going to ask our upstreams every time we make a change > to a package. If we did, there would be no Ubuntu, no Debian, no > Fedora, arguably no meaningfully usable Free Software distributions at > all. Not necessarily, but the very

[Bug 1783455] Re: tlp shouldn't recommend linux-tools

2018-08-04 Thread Adam Conrad
There is no "proper way" for a package to depend on linux-tools in Ubuntu, currently. A bug on linux-tools wouldn't have solved that problem retroactively. And no, we're not going to ask our upstreams every time we make a change to a package. If we did, there would be no Ubuntu, no Debian, no

[Bug 1783455] Re: tlp shouldn't recommend linux-tools

2018-08-03 Thread linrunner
I agree with Raphael about the inapproriate procedure. Ask your upstream(s) first, please! > 1) linux-tools is a virtual, provided by many linux-tools packages, and we have no way of knowing which one matches the kernel you have installed. Then what's the proper way to install linux-tools-*

[Bug 1783455] Re: tlp shouldn't recommend linux-tools

2018-07-24 Thread Raphaël HALIMI
NO. This is not about cpupower. TLP recommends linux-tools on Ubuntu (and linux-cpupower on Debian) for the x86_energy_perf_policy binary, which is needed for some reporting functions (look in tlp-stat and tlp- functions). This is stated quite clearly in the comments at the top of the

[Bug 1783455] Re: tlp shouldn't recommend linux-tools

2018-07-24 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package tlp - 1.1-2ubuntu1 --- tlp (1.1-2ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium * Demote linux-tools Recommends to Suggests and prefer generic (LP: #1783455) -- Adam Conrad Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:00:47 -0600 ** Changed in: tlp (Ubuntu Cosmic) Status: New

[Bug 1783455] Re: tlp shouldn't recommend linux-tools

2018-07-24 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package tlp - 1.1-2ubuntu1 --- tlp (1.1-2ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium * Demote linux-tools Recommends to Suggests and prefer generic (LP: #1783455) -- Adam Conrad Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:00:47 -0600 ** Changed in: tlp (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: Fix

[Bug 1783455] Re: tlp shouldn't recommend linux-tools

2018-07-24 Thread Adam Conrad
Hello Adam, or anyone else affected, Accepted tlp into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tlp/1.1-2ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package. See

[Bug 1783455] Re: tlp shouldn't recommend linux-tools

2018-07-24 Thread Adam Conrad
Verified that the resulting binaries now Suggest "linux-tools-generic | linux-tools" and no longer Recommend "linux-tools". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783455 Title: tlp