Comment 22 for bug 1908050

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 01:02:56AM -0000, Brian Murray wrote:
> While the version of ubuntu-drivers-common in the release pocket for
> Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has code for "system_device_specific_metapackages" it
> seems that some users[1] have strange versions of ubuntu-drivers-common
> installed and are receiving Tracebacks with an attribute error. So it
> seems like the update-notifier SRU would have benefited from a versioned
> dependency on ubuntu-drivers-common.
>
> [1]
> https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/13cbbbaf8da4338aa930bf2b22960d807b38ae70

Some of these people are running derivatives which appear to be taking
Ubuntu's SRUs directly but also modifying some packages - that seems a
bit risky.

But not all of them.

I can see that this could maybe happen if update-notifier runs when
you're in the middle of a release upgrade from bionic, if
ubuntu-drivers-common gets updated first and then the old
update-notifier runs before it itself gets updated. (side note: if that
can happen, it seems undesirable - we don't want update-notifier running
when there's other apt operations ongoing including release upgrading)

Do you think we should follow up with an update to set a version on this
dep?

Cheers,

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Iain Lane [ <email address hidden> ]
Debian Developer [ <email address hidden> ]
Ubuntu Developer [ <email address hidden> ]