No problem, Colin. I fixed the description so it includes an 'executive summary' in accordance with the instruction.
@Matthias: Any chance you can sponsor this? ** Description changed: + [Impact] + + In the focal build of smart-notifier, the important files were not + installed, and the resulting binary is useless. A backport as an SRU of + the groovy version fixes the issue. + + [Test Case] + + Run the command: + + ls /usr/share/smart-notifier -1 + + When fixed, it should output: + + smart-notifier + smart_notifier + smart_notifier-0.28.egg-info + + [Regression Potential] + + Low... (It cannot be more useless than it currently is.) + + [More details] + I installed this in a fresh install of Xubuntu 20.04.1 and, while it installs, the file to which it links: /usr/bin/smart-notifier -> ../share/smart-notifier/smart-notifier does not exist, so it does not function at all! -- $ sudo apt install --reinstall smart-notifier Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree + Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: - gnome-software-common libappstream-glib8 + gnome-software-common libappstream-glib8 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 4 not to upgrade. Need to get 6,812 B of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 smart-notifier all 0.28-5build1 [6,812 B] - Fetched 6,812 B in 0s (102 kB/s) + Fetched 6,812 B in 0s (102 kB/s) (Reading database ... 318601 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../smart-notifier_0.28-5build1_all.deb ... Unpacking smart-notifier (0.28-5build1) over (0.28-5build1) ... Setting up smart-notifier (0.28-5build1) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.16-2ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ... $ ls -ls /usr/share/smart* total 12 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 166 Oct 9 2019 smartd-runner 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5583 Mar 21 12:29 smartd_warning.sh -- Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Release: 20.04 smart-notifier: Installed: 0.28-5build1 Candidate: 0.28-5build1 Version table: *** 0.28-5build1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875498 Title: smart-notifier installs, but has missing requirments To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smart-notifier/+bug/1875498/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
