Bug#1054415: cockpit-ws: remotectl command missing?

[wim]

Package: cockpit-ws
Version: 301-1~bpo12+1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: wim.b...@ucll.be

Hello,

it seems the remotectl command is missing (from bookworm and bookworm-backports)?
(as it was included in bullseye, and is included in testing)

hth,
Wim

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages cockpit-ws depends on:
ii adduser 3.134
ii glib-networking 2.74.0-4
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u3
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.33-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2
ii libgnutls30 3.7.9-2
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.20.1-2+deb12u1
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.6.6-1
ii libpam0g 1.5.2-6+deb12u1
ii libsystemd0 252.17-1~deb12u1
ii openssl 3.0.11-1~deb12u1
ii systemd 252.17-1~deb12u1

cockpit-ws recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cockpit-ws suggests:
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
pn sssd-dbus <none>

-- no debconf information

[Martin Pitt]

Control: tag -1 wontfix

Hello Wim,

wim [2023-10-23 17:16 +0200]:

> it seems the remotectl command is missing (from bookworm and bookworm-backports)?
> (as it was included in bullseye, and is included in testing)

This is intended, see https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-252.html

Out of interest, why do you need it? If you want to set up a key for cockpit-ws
in advance, there are usually better tools (ansible, linux-system-roles,
LetsEncrypt, etc.), and in the worst case you can still call
/usr/lib/cockpit/cockpit-certificate-ensure .

Martin

[Martin Pitt]

Wim Bertels [2023-10-23 16:06 +0000]:
> if the manpages are generated correctly:
> https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/cockpit-ws/remotectl.8.en.html
> remotectl is present in unstable and testing as well?

No, it's not any more in testing and unstable: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/amd64/cockpit-ws/filelist
it seems manpages.d.o didn't remove the dropped manpage.

> https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/cockpit-ws/remotectl.8.en.html

It *is* still present in stable (aka bullseye):
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/amd64/cockpit-ws/filelist , i.e. that
link is correct/current.

Martin