Re: Bug#287949: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#287949: ndiswrapper-modules depends on ndiswrapper-utils; so should ndiswrapper-source)
This text should be in the bug report log.
Package maintainer is closing bugs too fast and hiding information
from the public without any discussion or peer review.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:27:12PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> How about a Recommends?
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 11:43:45AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > A dependency wouldn't change that. A *versioned* dependency would,
> > but it would be a little rediculous to add that when there's no need
> > (afaik) for it.
>
> You should at least add a Recommends, that way aptitude could pick it
> up. Your first concern should be people who build+install.
> Builders only can go to the effort of not installing the recommends.
>
> It's pretty darned important to have -utils. The use case for build
> maintainers is less important than users.
>
> > *Never* uninstall the old kernel without testing it. That's why we go
>
> You can't do that when you install the same version of the kernel,
> without appending some unique string to the kernel so that
> /lib/modules/2.6.x{blah} is unique. I guess I could keep all the old
> .debs around on my system.
>
> Plus that's weak reasoning. The gotcha of -utils not being kept
> in sync *at all* with -source is the problem. How I recover from
> the problem is secondary. That's how Microsoft deals with fucked-up
> gotchas -- writing a bunch of Best Practice Whitepapers. It should
> Just Work.
>
> > All the -source packages I've seen do the same thing. If I've made a
>
> This one is different because it's a network card.
>
> Use case #1: alsa-source
> End-user downloads alsa-source, builds alsa-modules, has no other alsa-*
> packages installed. User runs dpkg -i alsa-modules, fails to install
> because alsa-base is not installed, user runs apt-get install alsa-base,
> alsa-utils comes in as a dependency, then alsa-modules finishes
> installing.
>
> Use case #2: this package
> End user downloads ndiswrapper-source, builds ndiswrapper-modules, has
> no other ndiswrapper-* packages installed. User runs dpkg -i
> ndiswrapper-modules, previous network driver is removed. User tries
> to run apt to install ndiswrapper-utils, can't download anything because
> network card is no longer loaded. Unless he has access to the previous
> ndiswrapper-modules on his physical hard drive, he's using a floppy to
> download it from some other machine, fix the problem.
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