[Fuego] [Bug] bsd-mailx package has been removed from Debian repository

[Tim.Bird at sony.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoang Van Tuyen
> 
> Recently, I have pulled the newest source code of fuego and fuego-core
> repositories (master branch).
> 
> I have run the ./install script from fuego folder.
> 
> I have got the below issue.
> 
> Get:458 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main u-boot-tools amd64
> 2014.10+dfsg1-5 [80.4 kB]
> Get:459 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main unzip amd64 6.0-
> 16+deb8u3 [162 kB]
> Get:460 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main vim-runtime all
> 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u3 [5048 kB]
> Get:461 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main vim amd64
> 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u3 [953 kB]
> Get:462 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main xauth amd64
> 1:1.0.9-1 [38.2 kB]
> Get:463 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main xdg-user-dirs
> amd64 0.15-2 [52.1 kB]
> Get:464 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main xml-core all
> 0.13+nmu2 [24.2 kB]
> Get:465 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main xmlstarlet amd64
> 1.6.1-1 [280 kB]
> Get:466 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main netcat all 1.10-41
> [8962 B]
> Get:467 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main sshpass amd64
> 1.05-1 [11.2 kB]
> E: Failed to fetch http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bsd-
> mailx/bsd-mailx_8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-2_amd64.deb  403  Forbidden
> 
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-
> missing?
> Fetched 244 MB in 7min 9s (568 kB/s)
> The command '/bin/sh -c DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
> && apt-get -yV install    apt-utils daemon gcc make cmake python-paramiko
> python-lxml python-simplejson   python-matplotlib python-serial python-
> yaml python-openpyxl python-requests     python-reportlab libtool xmlstarlet
> autoconf automake rsync openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jdk         iperf netperf
> netpipe-tcp sshpass wget git diffstat sudo net-tools vim curl     inotify-tools
> g++ bzip2 bc libaio-dev gettext pkg-config libglib2.0-dev         time python-pip
> python-xmltodict at minicom lzop bsdmainutils u-boot-tools      mc netcat
> lava-tool openssh-server python-parsedatetime         libsdl1.2-dev libcairo2-
> dev libxmu-dev libxmuu-dev iperf3' returned a non-zero code: 100
> 
> 
> 
> When We install at package, it depends on several other packages and the
> end, it requires bsd-mailx package.
> I see that the bsd-mailx package is not available from Mar 23.
> Does anyone get the same issue?

I haven't seen this, but it looks like I'm using my docker cache to build images.
This means I might not be seeing effects of upstream changes.

I'm going to try to bypass the cache, and try to reproduce this.

But in the meantime, can I ask a few questions to clarify the problem?

Is it the 'at' package that depends on bsd-mailx? I don't see it in the list for the
Fuego apt-get.  If it's not 'at', do we know which fuego-desired package depends
on bsd-mailx?

Does anyone know of a way to break a dependency with apt-get?
Can we just omit 'at' (or which package is requiring bsd-mailx' from the main list
and load it separately with 'apt-get --no-deps install <problem-package>'?

Isn't this a big problem upstream?  If upstream is changing and has broken
package dependencies, should we report this and see if there's a fix in
progress?

 -- Tim