Ubuntu 16.10: hwinfo --save-config option fails to save the configuration.

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== Comment: #8 - Chandni Verma - 2017-01-18 00:34:19 ==
The current status of pull request for the patch on this bug is: https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo/pull/37

As we can see, Steffen Winterfeldt, the maintainer is a bit reluctant to make the code take the responsibility of creating absent directories.

So, I would like to request the Ubuntu package maintainer to create the following directories if not present on the system upon installation of hwinfo:

DIR PERMISSION
/var/lib/hardware 0755
/var/lib/hardware/udi 0755

Thanks and Regards.

[Sebastien Badia (sbadia)]

Hello,

Ok we manage this in the Debian packaging.

Thank you for the bug report

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-02-21 01:33 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #12)
> Hello,
>
> Ok we manage this in the Debian packaging.
>
> Thank you for the bug report

Can you please apply these changes to 17.04 ?

-Vasant

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package hwinfo - 21.39-1

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hwinfo (21.39-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Tomasz Buchert ]
  * New upstream version 21.39
  * d/patches: refresh
  * d/*: debhelper 10 and watch 4

  [ Sebastien Badia ]
  * d/control: Migrate to my Debian email
  * d/dirs: Create hwinfo default backup dirs (LP: #1657544)

 -- Tomasz Buchert <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Apr 2017 12:36:51 +0200

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-06-21 03:18 EDT-------
hwinfo version in 16.10 is still 21.27 and issue is observed.

root@ltc-haba2:~# hwinfo --version
21.27

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

Sebastien, looks like 17.04 version is 21.38-1 and 16.10 is still at 21.27-1 the milestone for this bug seems to be 17.04, could you please review to make sure the patch is available in 17.04 ? IBM is reporting that they are still seeing this issue.

[Sebastien Badia (sbadia)]

Hi Manoj,

As said before this bug was fixed/released in the version 21.39-1 of the Debian package. (I'm a co-maintainer of hwinfo inside Debian), hwinfo is automatically pulled from Debian to Ubuntu.

I tried to fix this trivial bug in Ubuntu (I have no idea how to do a backport inside Ubuntu), but bazar seems blocked…

> http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/udd-getting-the-source.html
> bzr branch ubuntu:hwinfo hwinfo.dev

Cheers,

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

16.10 is end of life.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

udd has been turned off, and is no longer in use.

$ pull-lp-source hwinfo zesty

prepare a regular debdiff, and attach to the bug report for sponsorship.

[Sebastien Badia (sbadia)]

Oh, ack for udd, thanks Dimitri!

Corresponding Debdiff attached to this bug.

Cheers,

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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

artful has 21.46, so this is fixed for 17.10.

As stated, 16.10 is EOL.

Since this is filed as "medium", it doesn't look like this needs to be an SRU. If I'm mistaken and IBM does feel this needs to be fixed in stable releases, please reopen this bug.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-08-01 09:01 EDT-------
Thanks Steve,

Closed at IBM side.