[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#473052: Missing dependency: hal needs to depend on dbus-x11?

Nathanael Nerode neroden at fastmail.fm
Thu Mar 27 23:55:18 UTC 2008


Package: hal
Severity: important

On an attempt to upgrade from etch to lenny, the upgrade hanged 
configure hal.

But *before* that it announced that it was unable to connect to dbus, 
complaining specifically about dbus-launch.

Now, the crucial point is that dbus-x11 was not installed on the machine
at the time.  dbus-x11 provides the dbus-launch utility.  After 
installing dbus-x11, hal installed just fine.

Hal apparently needs to depend (or possibly pre-depend?) on dbus-x11.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser             3.106                add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                1.1.20-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info            20080215-1           Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6               2.7-6                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.1.20-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.74-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1           1.95.8-4             XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1             1:4.3.0-1            GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.16.1-2             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1     0.5.10+git20080301-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1             0.5.10+git20080301-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1          0.13.13-1            Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6          4.3.0-1              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4        2:0.1.12-9           userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0       0.114-2              libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base            3.1-24               Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount               2.13.1-2             Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils            1:2.2.10-1           Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils            0.99.2-3             utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                0.114-2              /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils            0.73-7               Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-6    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin                 <none>     (no description available)





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