netcat-openbsd is in main but netcat-standard has a netcat dummy package
Bug #1780316 reported by
Robert C Jennings
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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netcat (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Steve Langasek | ||
netcat-openbsd (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
For installations that don't have netcat-openbsd somewhere in the seed then any package/user that installs 'netcat' will get 'netcat-standard' from universe rather than 'netcat-openbsd' from main. (One example is the ubuntu-fan package that recommends netcat)
Installing the 'netcat' transitional package should provide users a supported package as one exists.
Suggested action:
* Remove the 'netcat' dummy package from the netcat-standard package
* Add a 'netcat' dummy package to the netcat-openbsd package
description: | updated |
tags: | added: id-5e382d5b22e40a7bf6876a59 |
tags: | added: id-5e388e291224663ce9b79d46 |
Changed in netcat (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
assignee: | nobody → Steve Langasek (vorlon) |
Changed in netcat-openbsd (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
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This issue crops up on the Bionic minimal cloud images which don't have netcat-openbsd installed by default (it is in the Xenial image). When docker.io is installed with recommends it pulls in netcat-standard (via ubuntu-fan).