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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:35:39PM -0000, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> But regarding how adduser got onto my "mostly-clean" Lucid system in the
> first place...  After you pointed this out, I tried removing adduser,
> trying to identify which package had brought it in -- isn't this saying
> that adduser is being brought in by essential packages?

> $ sudo apt-get remove adduser
>    [...]
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
>   e2fsprogs util-linux (due to e2fsprogs) hostname upstart (due to hostname)
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 500 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

That is indeed what it says, but FWIW, I can't reproduce this behavior here.
Removing adduser wants to remove several core packages, but nothing that's
actually essential.

And since the packages to be removed aren't essential, the dependency is
needed to prevent trying to call addgroup when the adduser package happens
to be in an unconfigured state in the middle of an upgrade.

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Please merge gnuradio 3.2.2.dfsg-1 (multiverse) from Debian unstable (main)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260406
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Status in “gnuradio” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Please merge gnuradio 3.2.2.dfsg-1 (multiverse) from Debian unstable (main)

*** Note: a small patch (comment #17) is required to build 3.2.2.dfsg-1 on Lucid.  It adds a couple missing build and runtime deps and removes stale prebuilt Qt .moc files which get regenerated during the build.

FeatureFreeze exception justification [GRANTED - see comment #14]:

*** Ubuntu's version of gnuradio is over two years old.  The Ubuntu ham community would like to be able to enjoy the improved stability and features that have been introduced to gnuradio over that interval.  I have examined the pending Debian bugs against this version of gnuradio and I find none of them to be show-stoppers, however the package seems to be stalled from entering Debian testing because of them.  I will be following up on that situation with Debian, but I don't think we need to further delay integration of gnuradio into Lucid in the meantime.

*** Attached find build and install logs and screenshot:
 - pbuilder-gnuradio_3.2.2.dfsg-1ubuntu1.log
 - lucid-install-gnuradio_3.2.2.dfsg-1ubuntu1.log
 - gnuradio-lucid-Screenshot.png

*** Source does not provide NEWS, CHANGES, or Changlog, but refers instead to the repository at http://gnuradio.org/

Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped:

*** All ubuntu delta changes have been merged upstream or obsoleted by upstream changes.

Changelog entries since current lucid version 3.0.4-2ubuntu3:

gnuradio (3.2.2.dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * new upstream version, includes gcc4.3 support, closes: #474801, #524387
  * upstream tarball modified to elide unnecessary Altera-licensed files
  * merge debian/ content restructuring from upstream svn
  * change build-dep from fftw3-dev to libfftw3-dev, closes: #458231
  * fix problem with rebuilding, closes: #441739
  * no longer need to move to contrib now that sdcc is fully back in main,
    we just need to build depend on sdcc 2.9.0 or later, closes: #457402
  * rebuild reflects python-central file location change, closes: #490513
  * change Jack build depend to libjack-dev, closes: #527413

 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@xxxxxxx>  Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:13:54 -0700