Bug#537458: boinc-client: Broken dependencies. /init.d script requires schedtool and ionice.

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello,

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 04:34:07PM -0600, René Mayorga wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:55:19PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> > Tomasz Sztejka wrote:
> > > boinc-client borken dependecies. This package /init.d script
> > >  requires ionice and schedtool. Schedtool package is only suggested,
> > >
> > I found it to be recommended now.  This seems fine. If there is not
> > another email coming in parallel from Fernando or Rene or .. (Thomas?)
> > ... with insights on ionice, could you please elaborate a bit more about
> > what you mean here?
> >
> >
>
> I actually remember that I made the upload when schedtool was promoted
> to recommends.

but it's there no more:

$ apt-cache show boinc-client  | egrep "^Version|schedtool"
Version: 6.10.58+dfsg-2

which is fine, because it was replaced by chrt. But, and a big but,
util-linux is not mentioned in the pkg relationships of the package:

$ apt-cache show boinc-client  | egrep "^Version|util-linux"
Version: 6.10.58+dfsg-2

util-linux contains chrt and ionice; at least it deserves to be in
Recommends, but given it's purpose is to make boinc be more "polite"
on the users machine, also a Depends might do. boinc-client can work
also without them, so I don't raise the severity, but please address
it soon.

> But AFAICS Tomasz is reporting this on stable version,
> IIRC there schedtool is still on Suggest on that version.

Well, either you are preparing a stable update (and given we're
already in squeeze freeze and this bug is old, is it worth?) or you
can simply close this bug when you upload the correct package in
unstable.

Thanks & Regards,
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