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

[Steffen Möller]

Aaaaah!

On 08/06/2010 07:22 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> 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.

I agree that this should be in depends.

>> 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.

Sandro, I just saw that you are not member of the pkg-boinc project.
I think Daniel and Rene agree that it would be great to welcome you
with us.

If there is nobody speaking against it, then I'll now add the util-linux
dependency.

Best,

Steffen