Powertop Package has launch errors

Bug #1207252 reported by Cefn
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Bug Description

There's a version of powertop installed in a default build of Ubuntu Gnome Saucy Alpha 1, even before powertop is actually installed. However, it's dependencies are not satisfied. When you launch it, it reports library errors...

$ powertop
powertop: error while loading shared libraries: libnl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I can't find which package is maintaining it, and the following happens when I try to query the source package...

$ dpkg -S `which powertop`
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/local/sbin/powertop

The I found the main powertop package itself has a dependency packaging error, meaning it's missing libnl1.

A workaround is to install libnl1...

$ sudo apt-get install libnl1

...after which the powertop launch succeeds.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: powertop (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-6.17-generic 3.10.3
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-6-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.11-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 1 10:55:13 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: powertop
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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