Bug#608807: ices2: ethernet address changed

[Philipp Schafft]

reflum,

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 09:54 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Package: ices2
> Version: 2.0.1-9
> Severity: normal
> 
> A dist-upgrade today upgraded ices2.  The new dependencies pulled in
> dnet-common, libdnet, libroar0, and muroard which caused the machine
> to set the ethernet address to aa:0:4:0:a:4 from its previous address.
> This of course caused the network to be problematic until the arp
> caches timed out.  The package changing the ethernet address appears
> to be dnet-common which is now a dependency of ices2.


To clear this up:

From #608812
> ices2 depends libroar0.
> libroar0 recommends roaraudio-server which is virtual, muroard got
> selected.
> libroar0 depends libdnet.
> libdnet recommends dnet-common.

The network setup thingy is part of dnet-common. Installing without it
is possible. libdnet does not produce strange errors on missing
dnet-common, it just detects the non existing support (implecide) and
returns normal ENOSYS and friends. So no problem here if not installed.

So please have a look if installing without recommends works.

Depends of ices2 on libroar0 isn't the problem.

I suggest to:
close the bug as invalid (it's not ices2's problem) as the install does
exactly what it is suppost to do: it try to set up the system in a way
all features works
OR re-assign it to source package dnprogs which includes libdnet and
dnet-common and request for some better way to solve this.

I do not consider this a ices2 bug as dnet-common is not a depends or
recommends of ices2.

> Does ices2 really need to have decnet installed and configured?

No, but:
libroar0 is used and it depends on libdnet so installed libdnet is
required (but the lib is very small and and stuff so I do not consider
this a problem). Configrued: no but in the case you actually want to use
DECnet support.


Hope I made this a bit more clear :)


> Bob
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages ices2 depends on:
> ii  libasound2                  1.0.23-2.1   shared library for ALSA
> applicatio
> ii  libc6                       2.11.2-7     Embedded GNU C Library:
> Shared lib
> ii  libogg0                     1.2.0~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library
> ii  libroar0                    0.3-2        foundation libraries for
> the RoarA
> ii  libshout3                   2.2.2-5+b1   MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast
> streaming
> ii  libvorbis0a                 1.3.1-1      The Vorbis General Audio
> Compressi
> ii  libvorbisenc2               1.3.1-1      The Vorbis General Audio
> Compressi
> ii  libxml2                     2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
> ii  netbase                     4.44         Basic TCP/IP networking
> system
> 
> ices2 recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages ices2 suggests:
> ii  icecast2                      2.3.2-6    Ogg Vorbis and MP3
> streaming media
> ii  muroard [roaraudio-server]    0.1.0-4    minimalist RoarAudio
> sound daemon
> 
> -- no debconf information


-- 
Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)
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