[Bug 1068341] Re: No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages (nvidia driver install fails to get matching header)

[Michael Stephenson]

I can't believe Canonical is going to allow this bug to ship on the latest Ubuntu release available when steam goes live.
I know you have a problem anticipating how your actions will be percieved in the blogosphere, and are regularly caught with your foot in your mouths, but let me give you a prediciton:

This bug is going to make Ubuntu a laughing stock.

Hundreds perhaps thousands of brand new users will install Ubuntu for
the first time to try steam out when the Valve announce Steam. And their
first experience will be :

"OK guys,

Switch to a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1).

    Login as your username.

    Install linux source (sudo apt-get install linux-source) and headers
(sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic)....."

You do have a P.R. department, don't you?

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Title:
  No way to specify correct dependencies for dkms packages (nvidia
  driver install fails to get matching header)

Status in “dkms” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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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  This bug is caused by the allowing of eg. linux-lowlatency kernel's
  headers, while the actual bug people are hitting is bug #1068488 ie.
  the Ubuntu 12.10 installer doesn't install linux-headers-generic by
  default.

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