cloud-init from trusty is already depending on python-serial. Why does it need to get added explicitly?
Package: cloud-init Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 964 Maintainer: Scott Moser <smo...@ubuntu.com> Architecture: all Version: 0.7.5-0ubuntu1 Replaces: ec2-init (<< 0.5.3) Provides: ec2-init Depends: cloud-guest-utils | cloud-utils, ifupdown (>= 0.6.10ubuntu5), procps, python (>= 2.7), python-requests (>= 0.8.2), software-properties-common, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, python (<< 2.8), python:any (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python-cheetah, python-prettytable, python-oauth, python-serial, python-configobj, python-yaml, python-jsonpatch Recommends: eatmydata Conflicts: ec2-init (<< 0.5.3) Filename: pool/main/c/cloud-init/cloud-init_0.7.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 190622 MD5sum: cc0d636ccbdff6f6969505eb33da29cc SHA1: 05aef5df1b3b7c0f4612b4b08cc5b8931efbf43f SHA256: e669b7b7bc7176219f013c1895e8662640e25e70f7fa0e76ba8333b9244fa397 Description-en: Init scripts for cloud instances Cloud instances need special scripts to run during initialisation to retrieve and install ssh keys and to let the user run various scripts. Description-md5: 8719ef0e4178017b7147590b1fde082e Python-Version: 2.7 Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu Supported: 5y Task: cloud-image ubuntu@foo:~$ dpkg -l python-serial Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===============================================-============================-============================-=================================================================================================== ii python-serial 2.6-1build1 all pyserial - module encapsulating access for the serial port ubuntu@foo:~$ sudo apt-get remove python-serial Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libfreetype6 os-prober Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: cloud-init python-serial 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 99 not upgraded. After this operation, 1,410 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ^Cubuntu@foo:~$ dpkg -l cloud-init Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===============================================-============================-============================-=================================================================================================== ii cloud-init 0.7.5-0ubuntu1.5 all Init scripts for cloud instances -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1381776 Title: cloud init depends on python-serial but does not declare it To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1381776/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
