[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1017975: Bug#1017975: ModemManager does not install qmicli needed for unlocking scripts.

[Ilja Sidoroff]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022, at 20:38, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote:
> Hi and thanks for your report!
>
> On Tue, 2022-08-23 at 13:56 +0300, Ilja Sidoroff wrote:
>> Package: modemmanager
>> Version: 1.18.10-1
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> In reference to bug #1004447.
>> 
>> The FCC unlocking scripts (in /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-
>> unlock.available.d) 105b and 1199 use `qmicli-binary` to perform the
>> unlocking operation. The binary, which is in libqmi-utils -package is
>> not installed by default or as a dependency to modemmanager-package.
>> If the binary is missing, the symptoms of the bug are as described in
>> #1004447. This can probably simply be fixed by adding libqmi-utils as
>> a dependency to modemmanager?
>
> I don't think it should be a `Depends`, but a `Recommends:`
>

Yes, after reading the package relationship policy, I think you are correct.

Ilja