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

Łukasz Mierzwa 1068341 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Oct 30 18:05:23 UTC 2012


We have a bug, that can happen, no big deal. But it's 2 weeks later and
everyone who installs Ubuntu 12.10 and selects Nvidia drivers still ends
up with broken desktop. We could do better than that.

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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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