On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 15:00:35 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > As shown in policy 7.2 > > "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. See Dependencies, Section 3.5." > > the problem actually is that virtualbox-dkms should be configured *before* configuring virtualbox, otherwise > without a built kernel module, restarting VMs > will fail and lead to an half-configured package. > > Please see bugs #798527 and #798979 as examples. > > (this is a subpackage depending on another subpackage that belongs to the same src, I don't get why I should discuss such internal > changes, but well, policy is policy) > A pre-depends is very much the wrong hammer here, userspace can't usefully rely on a kernel package or module through package dependencies. Cheers, Julien
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