Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)
On 07/20/2010 10:04 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> writes:
>
>> Sometimes, a package requires another package to be installed and
>> configured before it can be installed. In this case, you must specify a
>> Pre-Depends entry for the package.
>
> "Installed" here means "unpacked," not configured. There's a pending
> Policy bug to clarify that.
Thanks for the clarification, I fall about that one once a year.
>> We have exactly this case here. lsb_release needs to be configured
>> first.
>
> No. dkms doesn't need lsb-release to be configured before it can be
> unpacked. That's not this case.
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