[Unstable 0/2] Packaging dependencies

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Fri Nov 27 13:29:55 UTC 2020


Whenever I want to install different kernel versions for testing, I want to
just ask for either the image or the modules package and get both installed
just fine.

The linux-modules package, however, does not depend on either linux-image
packages (while linux-modules-extra does, which is an inconsistency too).

When doing it on real hardware where linux-modules-extra is desirable, if I am
using aptitude, I could just browse for the linux-modules-extra package if it
was on the list of Suggests for the linux-image package. But it's not.

In both cases, these two relationships are in line with policy, and should be
the default. Start applying them to Unstable and seeing what breaks.

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (2):
  UBUNTU: [Packaging]: linux-modules should depend on linux-image
  UBUNTU: [Packaging]: linux-image should suggest linux-modules-extra

 debian.master/control.d/flavour-control.stub | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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