Re: Will nvidia-graphics-drivers ever transition to testing?

[Mike Bird <mgb-debian@yosemite.net>]

On Sat May 10 2008 10:44:48 Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:32:35AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > nvidia-graphics-drivers was removed from testing ten months ago.[0]
> > New versions cannot transition to testing because of dependencies
> > on modules which are only built by module-assistant.[1]  These m-a
> > built modules are apparently unknown to Britney.[2]
>
> nvidia-graphics-drivers (- to 169.12-1)
>     Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers
>     Section: non-free/x11
>     34 days old (needed 10 days)
>     Ignoring high urgency setting for NEW package
>     nvidia-glx/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: nvidia-kernel-169.12
>     nvidia-glx/amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: nvidia-kernel-169.12
>     nvidia-glx-ia32/amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: nvidia-kernel-169.12
>     nvidia-kernel-source (i386, amd64) has new bugs!
>     Updating nvidia-kernel-source introduces new bugs: #476504, #462139,
> #474734, #460441 nvidia-glx (i386, amd64) has new bugs!
>     Updating nvidia-glx introduces new bugs: #441975, #443870, #438409
>     Not considered
>
> It depends on non-existing packages.  That's most likely a policy
> violation.

How should a package depend on a package built by module-assistant?

--Mike Bird