dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

[Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>]

On 07/17/2010 03:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> You should not specify a `Pre-Depends' entry for a package before this
>      has been discussed on the `debian-devel' mailing list and a consensus
>      about doing that has been reached.
> 
> Did you do that?

No I didn't, I'm doing that now.

dkms needs lsb-release in Pre-Depends, otherwise if lsb-release is
unpacked but not yet configured, dkms modules can fail to install with
the following error:
(#589308)


Setting up nvidia-kernel-dkms (195.36.24-4) ...
Loading new nvidia-195.36.24 DKMS files...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in <module>
    import lsb_release
ImportError: No module named lsb_release
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in <module>
    import lsb_release
ImportError: No module named lsb_release
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.32-5-amd64
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in <module>
    import lsb_release
ImportError: No module named lsb_release
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in <module>
    import lsb_release

Any objections to add the Pre-Depends entry?

Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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