Bug#261763: dselect: Failed to install Depends items

["John D. Hendrickson" <jdh@hend.net>]

Package: dselect
Version: 1.10.4
Severity: important



-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux link 2.4.20-mm #1 Tue Feb 24 17:47:00 EST 2004 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.5-11.2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5            5.2.20020112a-7   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library

Hi,

I just did a dist-upgrade (woody to sarge) in July '04.

module-init-tools was not upgraded, though I certainly had it installed.

Infact, if you check the sarge Packages file you'll find it's marked "Optional"

HOWEVER,
     Description: tools for managing Linux kernel modules
     This package contains a set of programs for loading, inserting, and
     removing kernel modules for Linux (versions 2.5.48 and above). It serves
     the same function that the "modutils" package serves for Linux 2.4.

AND
	/sbin/insmod
	/sbin/update-modules
	/sbin/rmmod
	/sbin/modprobe
	/sbin/depmod
	/sbin/modinfo
	/bin/lsmod
	...

Obviously, you'd have to be Bill Gates Jr. to think this package is optional.

It isn't optional.  Say it is, and we have an arguement to settle.

I did install this from dselect:

Package: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-k7
Depends: initrd-tools (>= 0.1.63), coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0), module-init-t
ools (>= 0.9.13)

So, again, not only did I do a "apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade"
but I did a dselect and picked the kernel.  Still no module-init-tools.

I only found out by reading the "now famous" post-holloween.txt that (really
should have come with) the 2.6 kernel series.

In general I had many problems with things which were supposed to be installed 
not getting installed.

Many many more problems with packages which did not have all their 
dependancies marked (or? as above they were somehow skipped?)

Many many more problems with packages which did not install correctly.

I can only surmise that while jilting me as a potential maintainer that
debian.org has allowed uneducated monkeys great privelages with sarge.

Thanks,

	John D. Hendrickson

jdh@hend.net

johndhendrickson22124@yahoo.com