[Bug 509865] Re: Weird dependency satisfaction in open-vm-dkms with JeOS style (linux-virtual) kernel installed

[Clint Byrum]

Hi! Thanks for taking the time to file a bug report and help us make
Ubuntu better!

Indeed, this does seem to happen on lucid.

On maverick, natty, and oneiric, the same command only pulls in dkms,
the headers are not in the dependency chain. This results in an entirely
different failure, but one that seems to be by design of the dkms
system.

The work around of course, is to install the virtual headers first. In
depends: the maintainer may have good reason to default to the generic
'linux-headers' instead of 'linux-headers-virtual', which is adequate
but not their first pick for whatever reason.

Marking Fix Released since Oneiric does not display the behavior.
Opening task against lucid, importance low. I don't think this is
actually SRU worthy, as the workaround for many will be, I think, quite
obvious, which is, to install the linux-headers-virtual package, which
is usually installed on full server VM's, just not in the "JEOS" case.
Meanwhile unless I'm mistaken, this could cause a regression for people
who expect the linux-headers package instead of linux-headers-virtual
when they install this dkms. Given that, I'm marking the lucid task as
Wont' Fix.

** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Also affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Lucid)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Lucid)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Tags added: jeos lucid

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  Weird dependency satisfaction in open-vm-dkms with JeOS style (linux-
  virtual) kernel installed

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