Fails to install library to GAC

[Chris Halse Rogers]

Binary package hint: indicator-application

libappindicator0-cil is failing to install the library to the Global Assembly Cache; this renders the library unusable, as it's not in the (equivalent of the) library search path.

This appears to be because libappindicator0-cil doesn't have a postinst / prerm pair actually calling the late-gac install routine.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Here's a debdiff fixing this.

This should go into Lucid; without it, the libappindicator0-cil package is entirely broken.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ack, please go ahead and upload.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for helping with making Ubuntu better by reporting this bug and providing a patch. However, the issue you reported and tried to fix was already reported in bug #564506 and there is a patch attached to that bug that fixes this issue, amongst others. I'm marking this bug as a duplicate.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Friday 16,April,2010 10:41 PM, Sense Hofstede wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 560095 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560095
>
> Thank you for helping with making Ubuntu better by reporting this bug
> and providing a patch. However, the issue you reported and tried to fix
> was already reported in bug #564506 and there is a patch attached to
> that bug that fixes this issue, amongst others. I'm marking this bug as
> a duplicate.
>
> ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 560095
> packaging of libappindicator0-cil is in violation of the Debian CLI Policy, making ${cli:Depends} not work
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 564506
> libappindicator-cil-dev's .pc file points to the wrong place
>
> ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 564506
> libappindicator-cil-dev's .pc file points to the wrong place
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 560095
> packaging of libappindicator0-cil is in violation of the Debian CLI Policy, making ${cli:Depends} not work
>

This is *definitely* Bug #560095, or at least fixed as part of the fixes I made
in 0.0.19-0ubuntu2. Bug #564506 is a consequence of me breaking the .pc file as
I had forgotten to touch that along when I moved files around in .install. It
now has a patch attached and is pending upload.

  duplicate 560095

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Developer

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

This is not a duplicate of bug #560095, nor is it the same problem as in bug #564506 (although directhex's patch incorporates this fix). The problem here is that the postinst & postrm fragments which actually call the late-gac installer weren't being copied to the binary deb because dh_installcligac was being called after dh_installdeb.

You can verify this by running “gacutil -l | grep appindicator”. With libappindicator0-cil 0.0.19-0ubuntu3 this returns no results, because the library hasn't been installed into the GAC

└─(19:03:%)── sudo dpkg --install libappindicator0-cil_0.0.19-0ubuntu3_all.deb ──(Sat,Apr17)─┘
dpkg: warning: downgrading libappindicator0-cil from 0.0.19-0ubuntu4 to 0.0.19-0ubuntu3.
(Reading database ... 402366 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libappindicator0-cil 0.0.19-0ubuntu4 (using libappindicator0-cil_0.0.19-0ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
Removing libappindicator0-cil from Mono
Unpacking replacement libappindicator0-cil ...
Setting up libappindicator0-cil (0.0.19-0ubuntu3) ...
┌─(raof@Ed:pts/1)──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(~)─┐
└─(19:07:%)── gacutil -l | grep appindicator ──(Sat,Apr17)─┘
┌─(raof@Ed:pts/1)──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(~)─┐
└─(1:19:07:%)── sudo dpkg --install ~/pbuilder/lucid_result/libappindicator0-cil_0.0.19-0ubuntu4_all.deb ──(Sat,Apr17)─┘
(Reading database ... 402366 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libappindicator0-cil 0.0.19-0ubuntu3 (using .../libappindicator0-cil_0.0.19-0ubuntu4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libappindicator0-cil ...
Setting up libappindicator0-cil (0.0.19-0ubuntu4) ...
* Installing 1 assembly from libappindicator0-cil into Mono

┌─(raof@Ed:pts/1)──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(~)─┐
└─(19:07:%)── gacutil -l | grep appindicator ──(Sat,Apr17)─┘
appindicator-sharp, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=bcae265d1c7ab4c2
┌─(raof@Ed:pts/1)──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────(~)─┐
└─(19:08:%)── ──(Sat,Apr17)─┘

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I'll mark this bug as a duplicate of bug #564506 since the patch attached to that bug fixes this issue. Should make reviewing freeze exceptions easier.