ACK / APPLIED: [Unstable 0/2] Packaging dependencies

Andrea Righi andrea.righi at canonical.com
Mon Nov 30 06:48:49 UTC 2020


On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:29:55AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> 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(-)

Makes sense to me. Thanks!

Acked-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi at canonical.com>



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