Package not functional in 15.04

[Jeroen T. Vermeulen]

The Vivid package currently does not contain any files other than the copyright and changelog.Debian.gz documents. After the upgrade, my /var/lib/uvtool is empty.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hi Jeroen,

uvtool recommends uvtool-libvirt, which provides the real functionality. I wonder if the upgrade forced it to get removed? Can you try installing it and if apt-get insists on removing things, paste that output of what it wants to do here please?

[Robie Basak (racb)]

There's also bug 1428674 which will probably also affect you when you get to this stage.

[Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv)]

You were right: somehow I had ended up without uvtool-libvirt! Installing that did not cause any other packages to be installed or uninstalled, and now I have the executables again. Should the "recommends" be a hard dependency?

It does seem that I am affected by the can't-find-IP-address bug. :(

[Robie Basak (racb)]

> Installing that did not cause any other packages to be installed or uninstalled, and now I have the executables again.

I'm a little concerned as to why you ended up having uvtool-libvirt removed anyway. I don't understand the circumstances that could cause that to happen.

> Should the "recommends" be a hard dependency?

My intention is that uvtool will support more than just libvirt. My next target will be nova (for Openstack). So in that case, I don't want the top level uvtool to pull in libvirt, as it's quite a big imposition on a user who just wants Openstack support. I could do it for the time being though, I suppose.

[Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv)]

Something went wrong as I tried to upgrade my system to Vivid, and I had to complete the upgrade manually using "apt-get dist-upgrade"... Perhaps that explains in some way why I ended up without uvtool-libvirt.