[Bug 1068341] Re: No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages (nvidia driver install fails to get matching header)

[Ernie 07]

Would you rather own a car that reliably gets you through hills and
curves with no problems or possess one with an outstanding list of
features including the high probability that a wheel will fall off if
the user (you or a loved one) fails to drive the car exactly the way the
designers envisioned.

Perhaps having to power cycle the 64-bit workstation installation after
it hangs in an Nvidia environment is not serious to a power user.
Grandma might not be very impressed.  Usability testing should have
caught the Nvidia and AMD header problems early in development.
Regression testing should have caught them prior to release.

If you don't have a method to verify that your changes work and have not
broken anything important, those changes should not be made!

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Title:
  No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages (nvidia
  driver install fails to get matching header)

Status in “dkms” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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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  This bug is caused by the allowing of eg. linux-lowlatency kernel's
  headers, while the actual bug people are hitting is bug #1068488 ie.
  the Ubuntu 12.10 installer doesn't install linux-headers-generic by
  default.

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