Public bug reported: == SRU Impact ==
Pretty minimal, adding a dependency to a shell script. == Regression Potential == xxd has presumably already available on machines that have pollinate, or it'd have been reported by now. VIM is rather ubiquitous... So, this is unlikely to have any effect for most users. And for the rest, it'll just make pollinate start to work. == Test Case == In a minimal chroot, without vim-common & xxd: # pollinate <13>Jan 14 03:34:27 pollinate[9317]: client sent challenge to [https://entropy.ubuntu.com/] <13>Jan 14 03:34:28 pollinate[9317]: client verified challenge/response with [https://entropy.ubuntu.com/] /usr/bin/pollinate: 79: /usr/bin/pollinate: xxd: not found == Original report == # journalctl | grep pollinate Jan 13 10:48:21 plato pollinate[1601]: client sent challenge to [https://entropy.ubuntu.com/] Jan 13 10:48:22 plato pollinate[1626]: client verified challenge/response with [https://entropy.ubuntu.com/] Jan 13 10:48:22 plato pollinate[1564]: /usr/bin/pollinate: 80: /usr/bin/pollinate: xxd: not found Jan 13 10:48:22 plato systemd[1]: pollinate.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a Jan 13 10:48:22 plato systemd[1]: pollinate.service: Unit entered failed state. Jan 13 10:48:22 plato systemd[1]: pollinate.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. # dpkg -l | grep pollina ii pollinate 4.23-0ubuntu1~16.04 all seed the pseudo random number generator # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 ** Affects: pollinate (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: pollinate (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: pollinate (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: pollinate (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: pollinate (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656484 Title: /usr/bin/pollinate uses xxd but does not depend on vim-common To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pollinate/+bug/1656484/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs