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Bug#1100976: RFS: ipmitool/1.8.19-8 -- utility for IPMI control with kernel driver or LAN interface (daemon)



Hello Tony,

sorry for my late answer. I'm moving from Germany to Malta 
next week, which means a lot of work.


I have use your opinion (a). It's uploaded to mentors and into git.


Thank you very much for your answers and your efforts.

CU
Jörg

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Am Sonntag, dem 23.03.2025 um 04:43 +0000 schrieb tony mancill:
> Hi Jörg,
> 
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 07:19:29PM +0100, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> > Hello Tony,
> > 
> > I have update enterprise-numbers.txt in release 1.8.19-6.
> 
> I see that update to the contents of the file in 1.8.19-6.
> 
> > Deleted was the file with the release 1.8.19-7.1 (NMU from Shengqi Chen
> > <harry-chen@outlook.com> )
> 
> $ dpkg-deb -c ipmitool_1.8.19-7.1_amd64.deb | grep numbers
> -rw-r--r-- root/root   4637432 2024-10-27 08:57 ./usr/share/misc/enterprise-numbers.txt
> 
> In fact, I see enterprise-numbers.txt present these versions:
> 
> ipmitool_1.8.19-4+deb12u1  <-- first Debian revision to include it
> ipmitool_1.8.19-4+deb12u2
> ipmitool_1.8.19-5
> ipmitool_1.8.19-6
> ipmitool_1.8.19-7
> ipmitool_1.8.19-7.1
> 
> > My idea was to download a current file version directly during
> > installation and via a cron job.
> > 
> > After some discussion, however, I discarded this idea. Unfortunately, I
> > can't say why Shengqi Chen removed the file in his version.
> 
> I can't find an explicit reference to it in Debian Policy, but
> downloading from an external network site as part of the package
> postinst doesn't seem like a common practice.  Ideally, the package is
> self-contained.
> 
> Since the enterprise-numbers.txt file is included in the packages in
> bookworm and in all packages during the testing/trixie, my suggestion is
> to either:
> 
> (a) include it in 1.8.19-8 package for trixie and remove the cronjob
> 
> or 
> 
> (b) migrate enterprise-numbers.txt into a new arch:all package named
> ipmitool-data and have ipmitool declare either a Depends or Recommends
> relationship on the new ipmitool-data package.  That avoids having to
> include the file each of the arch:any binary packages.  The new -data
> package might also include the cronjob to be configured optionally by
> the user.
> 
> However, option (b) will require that the package go through NEW.
> Technically, there is enough time before the hard freeze on April 15th,
> but the Release Team is probably quite busy, and it is possible that the
> package could be delayed.
> 
> For that reason, I recommend option (a) for now, and we can work on
> option (b) for trixie+1 (forky) if you like.
> 
> And finally, thank you for maintaining ipmitool!
> 
> Cheers,
> tony



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