mobile-tweaks packages breaks debootstrap with default variant

[You-Sheng Yang]

Source package mobile-tweaks version 3 imported from Debian has priority important, and all the packages generated from it, e.g. librem5-tweaks and pinephone-tweaks, also have important priority and are conflicting with each other. Priority important packages will be considered one of the installation candidates when doing debootstrap with default variant, and all the conflicting mobile-tweaks binary packages are to be installed, which certainly leads directly to failures:

  I: Unpacking librem5-tweaks...
  I: Unpacking mobile-tweaks-common...
  W: Failure while installing base packages. This will be re-attempted up to five times.
  W: See /var/cache/lxc/hirsute/partial-amd64/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package /var/cache/apt/archives/pinephone-tweaks_3_all.deb is at fault)

However, Debian Sid, also has version 3 mobile-tweaks, doesn't have this issue:

  ubuntu$ apt-cache showsrc mobile-tweaks
  Version: 3
  ...
  Priority: important

  debian$ apt-cache showsrc mobile-tweaks
  Version: 3
  ...
  Priority: extra

And yet the upstream tag for version 3 does contains fixes for this issue, so maybe Ubuntu's should have an update simultaneously?

See also:
* https://packages.ubuntu.com/hirsute/pinephone-tweaks
* https://packages.debian.org/sid/pinephone-tweaks
* https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/mobile-tweaks/-/commits/debian/3

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

Strangely, important tag is not specified in the Ubuntu's source package, and actually that downloaded source package is completely identical to that of Debian Sid:

  $ grep -nr important hirsute/mobile-tweaks-3/debian || echo "Not found"
  Not found

  $ diff -qr hirsute/mobile-tweaks-3/ sid/mobile-tweaks-3/ && echo Identical
  Identical

The binary packages built from that downloaded source package have priority set to optional:

  $ cd hirsute/mobile-tweaks-3
  $ fakeroot debian/rules binary
  $ dpkg-deb -I ../librem5-tweaks_3_all.deb | grep ^Priority
  Priority: optional

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

PPA with prebuilt binaries: https://launchpad.net/~vicamo/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-1918305

$ apt-cache showsrc mobile-tweaks
Package: mobile-tweaks
Binary: mobile-tweaks-common, librem5-tweaks, pinephone-tweaks, pinetab-tweaks
Version: 3-0ubuntu1
Section: metapackages
Maintainer: DebianOnMobile Maintainers <email address hidden>
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-exec
Architecture: all
Standards-Version: 4.5.0
Format: 3.0 (native)
Directory: pool/main/m/mobile-tweaks
...

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

So it takes only a no change rebuild. debdiff attached, please help sponsor/upload it.

[Dan Bungert (dbungert)]

@You-Sheng - I found this one while reviewing the sponsor queue. While I can reproduce the debootstrap failure without issue, I'm not sure the rebuild solves the problem. I ended up setting up a reprepro to add the rebuilt packages to, and those exhibited the same problem as the ones from the archive. What do you think?