[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#570777: gnome-disk-utility: Smartmontools should be a dependency

[Jonathan Steel]

Package: gnome-disk-utility
Version: 2.28.1-2
Severity: normal

Without the smartmontools package installed and "smartctl -a on /dev/sda" run, the SMART/health status is set to "Unknown" in the disk utility. After installing smartmontools, running the above command and rebooting, the SMART/health status is then shown correctly.

A casual user may not know to do this and then will not be warned of any hard drive problems.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-disk-utility depends on:
ii  devicekit-disks       009-2              abstraction for enumerating block 
ii  libatasmart4          0.17+git20100219-1 ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing
ii  libatk1.0-0           1.28.0-1           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                 2.10.2-6           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2             1.8.8-2            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.2.20-2           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2      0.84-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1        2.8.0-2            generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6          2.3.11-1           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgdu-gtk0           2.28.1-2           GTK+ standard dialog library for l
ii  libgdu0               2.28.1-2           GObject based Disk Utility Library
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.22.4-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0     2.28.2-1           GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.18.7-1           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension 2.28.4-1           libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify 0.4.5-1            sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.26.2-1           Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libunique-1.0-0       1.1.6-1            Library for writing single instanc
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3   compression library - runtime

gnome-disk-utility recommends no packages.

gnome-disk-utility suggests no packages.

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