aethercast binaries disappeared from the system

[Michael Zanetti]

After update to 182, the aethercast binaries disappeared from the system, leaving the external display page in system-settings broken.

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ system-image-cli -i
current build number: 182
device name: turbo
channel: ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/meizu-pd.en
last update: 2016-09-18 20:11:35
version version: 182
version ubuntu: 20160917
version device: 20160824-d33b825
version custom: 20160831-992-8-12

UPDATE: I've been told the change to make aethercast an option suggestion in system-settings caused to not have aethercast pulled in in the image builds.

It seems like there are 2 fixes needed:
a) Seed aethercast in relevant phone images
b) fix system-settings to hide the external display section when aethercast is not around. Currently the button is there but just does nothing.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

I agree ubuntu-system-settings should just handle seemlessly the existence or non-existence of aethercast on the system (meaning proposition 2.). If u-s-s does not cope well with this package being gone, it should be a Depends instead of a Suggests. But that is a different thing.

But that being said, on touch images we *require* aethercast to be installed by default, so it should be added to the seeds. I will take care of that.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-touch-meta 1.221vivid46 in https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/stable-phone-overlay

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ubuntu-touch-meta (1.221vivid46) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Added aethercast to touch (LP: #1625068)

 -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:50:42 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-touch-meta - 1.283

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ubuntu-touch-meta (1.283) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added aethercast to touch (LP: #1625068)
  * Added oxideqt-codecs-extra to touch [arm64]
  * Added unity-webapps-qml to touch [arm64]

 -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:15:59 +0200

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

ubuntu-system-settings handles the lack of aethercast the same way widi supported property not being set, it disables the controls. Once the backend needed by the external displays panel, this will be following the same pattern as configured external displays that aren't currently connected.