Package: parted X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Version: 3.5-3 Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Hi, While working on new arm64 Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic minimal cloud images (http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/daily/mantic/) we discovered that `dmidecode` was not being installed in the arm64 images. In debugging, I found that the package dependencies of the libparted2 package differ between arm64 and amd64. arm64 `libparted2` does not depend on `dmidecode` but on amd64 it does. #### arm64 ``` ubuntu@cloudimg:~$ apt show libparted2 Package: libparted2 Version: 3.6-3 Priority: standard Section: libs Source: parted Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Parted Maintainer Team <parted-maintainers@alioth- lists.debian.net> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 397 kB Provides: libparted Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.17.2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.97), libuuid1 (>= 2.16) Suggests: parted, libparted-dev, libparted-i18n (= 3.6-3) Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/parted Task: standard, cloud-minimal Download-Size: 150 kB APT-Manual-Installed: no APT-Sources: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports mantic/main arm64 Packages Description: disk partition manipulator - shared library GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. . This package contains the shared library. ``` #### amd64 ``` buntu@cloudimg:~$ apt show libparted2 Package: libparted2 Version: 3.6-3 Priority: standard Section: libs Source: parted Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Parted Maintainer Team <parted-maintainers@alioth- lists.debian.net> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 385 kB Provides: libparted Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.17.2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.97), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), dmidecode Suggests: parted, libparted-dev, libparted-i18n (= 3.6-3) Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/parted Task: standard, cloud-minimal Download-Size: 151 kB APT-Manual-Installed: no APT-Sources: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/main amd64 Packages Description: disk partition manipulator - shared library GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. . This package contains the shared library. ``` Is this a bug, or is there reasoning why this is the case? I note the change to dependencies `, dmidecode [amd64 i386]` was added as part of changes in version 3.2-21 in Apr 2018 to address bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840709 I have filed a bug against Ubuntu too @ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/2036980 My concerns is the diff in dependencies but in the Ubuntu bug xnox points out why there might be a diff in arm64 and amd64 ``` #if (defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)) && defined(__linux__) # define USE_DMI #endif #define APPLE_DMI "Apple Computer, Inc." #define APPLE_DMI_2 "Apple Inc." static int is_apple = 0; static char * dmi_system_manufacturer (void) { #ifdef USE_DMI FILE *dmidecode; char *manufacturer = NULL; size_t manufacturer_len = 0; dmidecode = popen ("dmidecode -s system-manufacturer 2>/dev/null", "r"); if (getline (&manufacturer, &manufacturer_len, dmidecode) < 0) { /* ignore; will return NULL */ } pclose (dmidecode); if (manufacturer) { char *newline = strchr (manufacturer, '\n'); if (newline) *newline = '\0'; } return manufacturer; #else /* !USE_DMI */ return NULL; #endif /* USE_DMI */ } ``` As I understand it, dmi is available on other arches too to find the manufacturer. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Installed parted2 on arm64 system * What was the outcome of this action? parted2 was installed but dmidecode was not * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected dmidecode to be installed as it is with amd64. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers lunar-updates APT policy: (500, 'lunar-updates'), (500, 'lunar-security'), (500, 'lunar'), (100, 'lunar-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.2.0-32-generic (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages parted depends on: ii libc6 2.37-0ubuntu2 ii libparted2 3.5-3 ii libreadline8 8.2-1.3 ii libtinfo6 6.4-2ubuntu0.1 parted recommends no packages. Versions of packages parted suggests: pn parted-doc <none> -- no debconf information
