Re: broken deps on libglide2-v3
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Today, Jules Bean, spilled the beans:
JB> Apologies for harping on, but have you looked at the device3dfx-source
JB> package? I just want to be sure you understand the situation here.
JB>
JB> You simply install device3dfx-source and compile it (it contains
JB> instructions) and this creates a device3dfx-modules.
OK Ok ok.. I was wrong. The package documentation does tell in great
detail how to get the device3dfx-module installed. I also understand that
this package will soon be obsoleted, but in the meanwhile...
A few points of advice:
- tell the user in some way to check out
/usr/share/docs/device3dfx-source/README.Debian during or post install.
( hmmm, a system of mailing users post install could be interesting,
but undebianish as we don't know that they use mail )
- Can't the setup attempt to compile the package and install it (after
prompting)? Might have a problem running dpkg from within a dpkg
spawned shell though.
- The dependencies will still make it very hard for a person to install
libglide2-v3, perhaps the Description for libglide2-v3 (and other
libglides?) should say:
"You will need to install the device3dfx-source package prior to
installing this, read the documentation for it in
/usr/share/doc/device3dfx-source/README.Debian as it will tell you how
to create the device3dfx-module package necessary for installation of
this package. Then come back and install me." or the likes there of.
I should have looked further to begin with, but should I have to look
further?
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Marques Johansson
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