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pppoeconf package

pppoeconf missing dependency 'modconf'

Bug #132183 reported by jcfp
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pppoeconf

Pppoeconf uses the modconf utility multiple times (see /usr/sbin/pppoeconf), but modconf isn't listed as a dependency.

Observed in pppoeconf on kubuntu feisty as well as gutsy tribe 4.

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Mb (mb-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Maybe this helps

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Mb (mb-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Pppoeconf is in main, modconf is in universe. As you can see here http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/p/pppoeconf/pppoeconf_1.16ubuntu1/changelog modconf can't be a pppoeconf dependancy

pppoeconf (1.10ubuntu2) edgy; urgency=low

  * Remove dependency on modconf to get this installable again.

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:58:13 +0200

Sorry for the debdiff.

Changed in pppoeconf:
status: New → Invalid
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jcfp (jcfp) wrote :

While I understand from that changelog that the modconf dependency was left out on purpose, shouldn't that change also require that all use of modconf be removed from the ppppoeconf script as a consequence?

Otherwise, the desire to satisfy the system (of full separation between main and universe) becomes an excuse to introduce bugs into packages.

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Mb (mb-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Maybe it is necessary to include modconf in main.

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Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) (yannick-duchene) wrote :

Confirmed on a fresh Kubuntu installed yesterday. I've opened a topic about it on the French Ubuntu forum, and someone pointed me this bug report.

The idea from Mario Bonino (2007-09-08) to add modconf in the core installation, seems relevant indeed. Why was that bug report marked invalid ? A bug is really there, modconf is a dependency for pppoeconf, and this dependency is broken.

Changed in pppoeconf (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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