Julien Valroff wrote:
Le jeudi 23 février 2006 à 07:04 +1000, Kel Modderman a écrit :
Kel Modderman wrote:
Julien Valroff wrote:
Package: madwifi-source
Version: 0.svn20060207
Severity: wishlist
As 2 build methods are clearly supported and explained in
README.Debian, I think madwifi-source
should only recommend module-assistant (and not depend).
As an alternative, the package could depend on m-a OR kernel-package.
debian/rules.modules:-
#!/usr/bin/make -f
PACKAGE := madwifi-modules
MA_DIR ?= /usr/share/modass
-include $(MA_DIR)/include/generic.make
-include $(MA_DIR)/include/common-rules.make
. . .
The package clearly depends on module-assistant.
Thanks, Kel.
That is not a strict dependency, however, I personally do not really
want to demote module-assistant to Recommends, as most of the
documentation I have written externally
(http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian) primarily describes
module-assistant.
Thanks for answering quickly.
I understand your point of view, but as aptitude pulls up recommended
packages, and I think Synaptics does the same, m-a would be installed
anyway in most cases, and people (like me) who don't use m-a could
simply uninstall it.
90% of the time i also use kernel-package, not m-a, but that is not the
point. I believe m-a lays the best framework for the average user to
easily install a module.
Regarding the documentation, maybe it would be good to insist on the
kernel-package method too.
I would certainly enjoy receiving contributed documentation :-)
I think the best thing is then to put a conditional dependency (Depends:
module-assistant|kernel-package <...>).
In this case, if none of the packages is already on the system, the
first listed will be installed by apt.
What do you think?
This is the best suggestion so far, and I will be using module-assistant
as first preference though.
Ok, i see two alternatives:-
1)
Package: madwifi-source
Architecture: all
Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.0), build-essential, module-assistant |
kernel-package, sharutils, bzip2
or
2)
Package: madwifi-source
Architecture: all
Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.0), build-essential, module-assistant,
sharutils, bzip2
Recommends: kernel-package
Which would you prefer? Would that be enough to satisfy your wish?
Cheers,
Julien
Thanks, Kel.
