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

[askuhn]

A kernel update was suggested by the "software updater" today (Nov 5)
and it broke my nvidia driver module again.  If I weren't familiar with
the terminal and what strings to pull to get things working, my 12.10
system would have essentially been broken by a stable update three weeks
after launch day.  Sorry if I'm just adding to the noise here, but I
feel that breakage of graphics drivers (that worked in 12.04 and many
prior releases) is a very significant problem.  Thanks :)

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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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