Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
On 3/2/06, Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:15:04PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Ok, we should probably find a different word to describe this
> > relationship.
> >
> > Perhaps it could be phrased that ndiswrapper has a need for the presence
> > of some software which is not available in debian main.
>
> But it doesn't -- ndiswrapper will sit there quite beningly if the non-free
> driver isn't present. It'll do everything it's supposed to -- link with the
> kernel and provide an ABI for other software -- without any errors.
Ok, but that's not everything it's supposed to do.
If that's all it needed to do then the code implementing the ABI
could do (*0)= "dump core" and that would be fine.
You're right, of course, that it's more precise to say that the user
has this need.
Then again, there have been packages where there were two groups of users,
one who would be better served by a dependency and another who would be
better served without.
--
Raul
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