ACK: [PATCH 0/1] LP#1489487 -- linux-meta: is uninstallable in trusty-proposed

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 09:03:18AM -0700, Brad Figg wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 04:41:43PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > It turns out we have some badly linked meta packages in trusty.
> > Specifically the *-hwe-* auto upgrade variants exist in some flavours
> > which do not exist on all architectures.  After some discussion it was
> > decided the -virtual variants should point to -generic where there is no
> > -virtual binaries.
> > 
> > Also there are are no powerpc binaries for -utopic so it makes no sense
> > to have *-hwe-* variants on that arch.
> > 
> > Proposing for SRU to trusty.  We may want to upload just this change
> > directly into trusty-proposed to allow the packages to become installable.
> > 
> > -apw
> > 
> > Andy Whitcroft (1):
> >   UBUNTU: fix linux-*-hwe-* linkage
> > 
> >  meta-source/debian/changelog      |  7 +++++++
> >  meta-source/debian/control.common | 12 ++++++------
> >  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.5.0
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> 
> Not sure what a "dandling" package is but we better get rid of them.

A dependancy on something which does not exist, in this case a -virtual
variant of the linux-meta-lts-utopic package for these architectures.

-apw