[SRU][B/linux-meta-raspi-5.4][PATCH] UBUNTU: [Packaging] Add transitional packages for raspi2 hwe upgrades

[Juerg Haefliger]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:39:06 +0200
Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:

> On 29.06.20 10:40, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885522
> > 
> > Add the transitionals to move the raspi2 users to the raspi flavor.
> > 
> > Note that the tansitionals will only take effect once we change the
> > variant of this kernel set from (currently) '-hwe-18.04-edge' to
> > '-hwe-18.04'.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh at canonical.com>
> > ---  
> 
> Hm, not sure... To me this looks like creating circular dependencies on itself...

What makes you think that this is a circular dependency? In Focal raspi we have
transitionals for moving raspi2 to raspi and we want the same in the Bionic
backport. So raspi2-<whatever> should transition to raspi-<whatever> and this
is what this patch intends to accomplish.

...Juerg


> 
> >  debian/control.d/transitionals-raspi2 | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 debian/control.d/transitionals-raspi2
> > 
> > diff --git a/debian/control.d/transitionals-raspi2 b/debian/control.d/transitionals-raspi2
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..0d3e65cf950e
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/debian/control.d/transitionals-raspi2
> > @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> > +Package: linux-headers-raspi2${variant:suffix}
> > +Architecture: armhf arm64
> > +Section: oldlibs
> > +Priority: optional
> > +Depends: linux-headers-raspi${variant:suffix}
> > +Description: Raspberry Pi Linux kernel headers (dummy transitional package)
> > + Transitional package for upgrades from linux-raspi2${variant:suffix}
> > + to linux-raspi${variant:suffix}.
> > +
> > +Package: linux-image-raspi2${variant:suffix}
> > +Architecture: armhf arm64
> > +Section: oldlibs
> > +Priority: optional
> > +Depends: linux-image-raspi${variant:suffix}
> > +Description: Raspberry Pi Linux kernel image (dummy transitional package)
> > + Transitional package for upgrades from linux-raspi2${variant:suffix}
> > + to linux-raspi${variant:suffix}.
> > +
> > +Package: linux-tools-raspi2${variant:suffix}
> > +Architecture: armhf arm64
> > +Section: oldlibs
> > +Depends: linux-tools-raspi${variant:suffix}
> > +Description: Raspberry Pi Linux kernel tools (dummy transitional package)
> > + Transitional package for upgrades from linux-raspi2${variant:suffix}
> > + to linux-raspi${variant:suffix}.
> > +
> > +Package: linux-raspi2${variant:suffix}
> > +Architecture: armhf arm64
> > +Section: oldlibs
> > +Priority: optional
> > +Depends: linux-raspi${variant:suffix}
> > +Description: Complete Raspberry Pi Linux kernel and headers (dummy transitional packages)
> > + Transitional package for upgrades from linux-raspi2${variant:suffix}
> > + to linux-raspi${variant:suffix}.
> >   
> 
> 

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