Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)
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.
> 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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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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