Package needs dep on firmware-tools

Bug #200956 reported by Jared Greenwald
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firmware-addon-dell (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Lucid
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Upon installation of firmware-addon-dell you should be forced to install firmware-tools as well, since bootstrap_firmware is needed to determine the proper firmware package for your system.

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in firmware-addon-dell:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Artur Rona (ari-tczew) wrote :

firmware-addon-dell (2.1.0-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    - Needed for firmware tools.
    - Remove compat_subprocess because it has been moved to firmwaretools

 -- Mario Limonciello < <email address hidden>> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:32:14 -0500

Changed in firmware-addon-dell (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Anand Kumria (wildfire) wrote :

And yet it appears to not be in the current version.

kalki:[~]% apt-cache show firmware-addon-dell
Package: firmware-addon-dell
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 368
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Michael Brown <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.1.0-0ubuntu2
Depends: smbios-utils | libsmbios-bin
Filename: pool/universe/f/firmware-addon-dell/firmware-addon-dell_2.1.0-0ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 62176
MD5sum: a6a1ee0b8a2c1b24de3efe808553b572
SHA1: db5789f23163ba9795e3fda3eabfee221afe8c93
SHA256: e66742cf993ef384526d9b7c58ae5d8c446c8a46f19f7439697bb69ac89ef594
Description: A firmware-tools plugin to handle BIOS/Firmware for Dell systems
 The firmware-addon-dell package provides plugins to firmware-tools which enable
 BIOS updates for Dell system, plus pulls in standard inventory modules
 applicable to most Dell systems.
 .
  Homepage: http://linux.dell.com/firmware-tools
Homepage: http://linux.dell.com/firmware-tools
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

kalki:[~]% lsb_release -ad
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

Changed in firmware-addon-dell (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → New
Changed in firmware-addon-dell (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Stefano Rivera (stefanor)
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package firmware-addon-dell - 2.2.9-0ubuntu1

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firmware-addon-dell (2.2.9-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Bhavani Shankar ]
  * New upstream release LP: #414247
  * debian/control:
    - Bump up Standards-Version to 3.9.0
      + remove linda override file
    - Remove Homepage link from package description
    - Bump up debhelper dependency to >= 5.0.38 as per policy
    - Add ${misc:Depends} macro to Depends field
  * debian/rules:
    - No longer install the linda override file we removed.
    - Remove get-orig-source, we are using releases again.
  * Remove debian/install file and doc/debian.in directory as it
    is used for building firmware packages, not installing them.

  [ Artur Rona ]
  * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format.

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * Remove debian/pycompat, unnecessary.
  * debian/rules:
    - Removed remaining get-orig-source support code.
    - Switched from autotools.mk to python-autotools.mk (LP: #602496)
  * debian/control:
    - Moved firmware-tools dependency from Python-Depends to Depends
      (LP: #200956)
    - Bumped cdbs build dependency to 0.4.72 for python-autotools.mk
  * Added README.Debian
 -- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:54:19 +0530

Changed in firmware-addon-dell (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in firmware-addon-dell (Ubuntu):
assignee: Stefano Rivera (stefanor) → nobody
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I confirm that the lucid-proposed package adds the dependency.

Changed in firmware-addon-dell (Ubuntu Lucid):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package firmware-addon-dell - 2.1.0-0ubuntu2.10.04.1

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firmware-addon-dell (2.1.0-0ubuntu2.10.04.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Call dh_pysupport to correctly install version-independent python
    code (LP: #602496) and generate python dependencies (LP: #200956)
 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:52:09 +0200

Changed in firmware-addon-dell (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Martin Pitt (pitti)
tags: added: verification-done
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