Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.
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- Subject: Re: Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:22:56 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87eib0g4wf.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
- In-reply-to: <87bp659iej.fsf@faui44a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (Reinhard Tartler's message of "Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:13:08 +0100")
- References: <20101104025941.13217.41495.reportbug__46148.8919951536$1288840876$gmane$org@localhost6.localdomain6> <87bp659iej.fsf@faui44a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> writes:
> is the fact that the package uses dkms relevant for the end user? it
> seems as an implementation detail of the package to me, so I'd suggest
> to drop that suffix.
There are some things the user has to know to do to use a dkms package
correctly (install the right kernel headers, ensure that they're always
upgraded when the kernel is upgraded, etc.), so it may be helpful to have
it be fairly obvious that the package is a DKMS package.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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