ziomon: Packaging needs to handle blktrace dependency
Bug #1616593 reported by
John George
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu on IBM z Systems |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Canonical Foundations Team | ||
| s390-tools (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04
$ apt-cache policy s390-tools
s390-tools:
Installed: 1.34.0-0ubuntu8.1
Candidate: 1.34.0-0ubuntu8.1
Packaging needs to handle the installation of dependencies.
The unexpected output is shown here:
ubuntu@
ziomon: Could not find blktrace. Please make sure that the blktrace package is installed and matches the level in the documentation.
| tags: | added: s390x |
| Changed in s390-tools (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Frank Heimes (frank-heimes) |
| assignee: | Frank Heimes (frank-heimes) → nobody |
| tags: | added: packaging |
| Changed in s390-tools (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in ubuntu-z-systems: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| assignee: | nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) |
| Changed in ubuntu-z-systems: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| tags: | added: architecture-s39064 bugnameltc-177421 severity-high targetmilestone-inin1910 |
| tags: |
added: targetmilestone-inin2004 removed: targetmilestone-inin1910 |
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It is a suggests, we can split this tool into a separate package.
but i guess the real bug here, is that these extra utils should not be required to display help and/or version.
we have patched other ibm utils packages to suggest installing optional components.