"Depends: coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0)" is archaic and can be removed

[Colin Watson]

Many kernel packages have "Depends: coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0)". I think this dates from old kernel packages in Debian (it's no longer present in current Debian kernel packages). fileutils has long since gone away, so this dependency is to all intents and purposes equivalent to "Depends: coreutils"; but coreutils is Essential, and packages aren't supposed to bother specifying unversioned dependencies on Essential packages. This dependency is basically just cruft in the Packages file, and should be removed.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 892814

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Log files are irrelevant to this bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.2.0-2.4

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linux (3.2.0-2.4) precise; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * rebase to v3.2-rc3

  [ Leann Ogasawara ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: xen: Do not use pv spinlocks on HVM"
  * Revert "fix ERROR: __devcgroup_inode_permission undefined"
  * Revert "olpc_dcon_xo_1_5 needs delay.h"
  * Revert "olpc_dcon_xo_1 needs delay.h"
  * rebase to 6fe4c6d4
  * [Config] updateconfigs after rebase to 6fe4c6d4

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] Replace wireless-crda with crda,wireless-regdb
    - LP: #856421
  * [Config] Relax the dependencies on crda

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * (pre-stable) HID: bump maximum global item tag report size to 96 bytes
    - LP: #724831
  * Ubuntu: remove coreutils|fileutils package dependency
    - LP: #892814
  * iio: iio_event_getfd -- fix ev_int build failure

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Rebase to v3.2-rc3
 -- Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:20:45 +0000