[Maverick][SRU][PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: Remove conflicts statements for compat-wireless meta packages

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Thu Dec 2 02:11:37 UTC 2010


BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683944

SRU Justification:

Examining the Maverick compat-wireless LBM meta packages it appears the
'Conflicts:' statements in each of the debian/control.d flavours is
unnecessary. The LBM packages themselves already have the appropriate
'Conflicts:' statements. Furthermore, they are coded in only one
location in each of the LBM packages
(debian/control.d/flavour-control.stub) which is much simpler to track
and update vs multiple separate files in each of the meta package
flavours.

Impact: For Maverick there is zero impact as the 'Conflicts:' statements
are already commented out. The patch for Maverick just removes the
commented out statements thus preventing them for possibly being enabled
in the future.

Test Case: Maverick currently only enables the 2.6.36 compat-wireless
package (2.6.37 will be enabled once it's final).  Thus there is no test
case at this time, as it won't conflict with anything.

The following changes since commit 7129fb4c2565b3a5f6f864efbd96338313aef33c:

  UBUNTU: Ubuntu-2.6.35.24.28 (2010-11-30 19:41:09 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:
  git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ogasawara/ubuntu-maverick-meta.git lp683944

Leann Ogasawara (1):
      UBUNTU: Remove conflicts statements for compat-wireless meta packages

 meta-source/debian/control.d/generic     |    2 --
 meta-source/debian/control.d/generic-pae |    2 --
 meta-source/debian/control.d/server      |    2 --
 3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

>From fa939977fa5f68fc99bd2134179eca03d236177a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:23:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] UBUNTU: Remove conflicts statements for compat-wireless meta packages

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683944

Examining the compat-wireless LBM meta packages it appears the
'Conflicts:' statements in each of the debian/control.d flavours is
unnecessary. The LBM packages themselves already have the appropriate
'Conflicts:' statements.  Furthermore, they are coded in only one
location in each of the LBM packages
(debian/control.d/flavour-control.stub) which is much simpler to track
and update vs. 6 or 8 separate files in each of the meta package flavour
files.

This patch has zero impact as the 'Conflicts:' statements are already
commented out.  This just removes the commented out statements.

Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>
---
 meta-source/debian/control.d/generic     |    2 --
 meta-source/debian/control.d/generic-pae |    2 --
 meta-source/debian/control.d/server      |    2 --
 3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic b/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic
index 2071941..2a8e4ce 100644
--- a/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic
+++ b/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ Description: Backported input drivers for generic kernel image.
 Package: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.36-RELEASE_NAME-generic
 Architecture: amd64 i386
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.36-${kernel-abi-version}-generic
-#Conflicts: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-RELEASE_NAME-generic
 Description: Backported wireless drivers for generic kernel image.
  This empty package allows people to keep their backported wireless modules
  up-to-date when upgrading their Linux kernel.
@@ -71,7 +70,6 @@ Description: Backported wireless drivers for generic kernel image.
 #Package: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-RELEASE_NAME-generic
 #Architecture: amd64 i386
 #Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-${kernel-abi-version}-generic
-#Conflicts: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.36-RELEASE_NAME-generic
 #Description: Backported wireless drivers for generic kernel image.
 # This empty package allows people to keep their backported wireless modules
 # up-to-date when upgrading their Linux kernel.
diff --git a/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic-pae b/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic-pae
index da84d00..3e9eb5f 100644
--- a/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic-pae
+++ b/meta-source/debian/control.d/generic-pae
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ Description: Backported input drivers for generic-pae kernel image
 Package: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.36-RELEASE_NAME-generic-pae
 Architecture: amd64 i386
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.36-${kernel-abi-version}-generic-pae
-#Conflicts: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-RELEASE_NAME-generic-pae
 Description: Backported wireless drivers for generic-pae kernel image.
  This empty package allows people to keep their backported wireless modules
  up-to-date when upgrading their Linux kernel.
@@ -71,7 +70,6 @@ Description: Backported wireless drivers for generic-pae kernel image.
 #Package: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-RELEASE_NAME-generic-pae
 #Architecture: amd64 i386
 #Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-${kernel-abi-version}-generic-pae
-#Conflicts: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.36-RELEASE_NAME-generic-pae
 #Description: Backported wireless drivers for generic-pae kernel image.
 # This empty package allows people to keep their backported wireless modules
 # up-to-date when upgrading their Linux kernel.
diff --git a/meta-source/debian/control.d/server b/meta-source/debian/control.d/server
index 96ae438..d1f84a4 100644
--- a/meta-source/debian/control.d/server
+++ b/meta-source/debian/control.d/server
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ Description: Backported input drivers for server kernel image
 Package: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.36-RELEASE_NAME-server
 Architecture: amd64
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.36-${kernel-abi-version}-server
-#Conflicts: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-RELEASE_NAME-server
 Description: Backported wireless drivers for server kernel image
  This empty package allows people to keep their backported wireless modules
  up-to-date when upgrading their Linux kernel.
@@ -71,7 +70,6 @@ Description: Backported wireless drivers for server kernel image
 #Package: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-RELEASE_NAME-server
 #Architecture: amd64
 #Depends: ${misc:Depends}, linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-${kernel-abi-version}-server
-#Conflicts: linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.36-RELEASE_NAME-server
 #Description: Backported wireless drivers for server kernel image
 # This empty package allows people to keep their backported wireless modules
 # up-to-date when upgrading their Linux kernel.
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