[Bug 1068341] Re: No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages

[Falk]

Hi,

I'm sorry to add to the buzz on this bug.

I did a new clean install on 12.10 and tried the gui preferred way with
no luck.

But with some workarounds as mentioned in this bug every thing worked.

"apt-get install linux-headers-generic"

Then at work when I updated the system things borked again to my big
surprise?

Again, no problem with some cli work, for those of us who are used to work that way.
But, this is a really important regression in this release imho..
Ordinary users should not have there "computers" broken with an routine update.

That's what we are proud of in the ubuntu community. It's always good to do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade..
Things just works..

So I think, that this bug should be looked at some more, before
categorizing it as a "wishlist" to dpkg..

Or are there only a few hw settings that gets messed up with this
problem?

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Regards Falk

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Title:
  No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Packages which use dkms require the linux-headers-$KERNEL_VER package
  to be installed for each linux-image-$KERNEL_VER which is installed.
  There's currently no way to specify this dependency.

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