[Pkg-dkms-maint] dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)

[Julien Cristau]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 17:41:26 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:

> Setting up nvidia-kernel-dkms (195.36.24-4) ...
> Loading new nvidia-195.36.24 DKMS files...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in <module>
>     import lsb_release
> ImportError: No module named lsb_release
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in <module>
>     import lsb_release
> ImportError: No module named lsb_release
> First Installation: checking all kernels...
> Building only for 2.6.32-5-amd64
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in <module>
>     import lsb_release
> ImportError: No module named lsb_release
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 26, in <module>
>     import lsb_release
> 
This looks to me like a missing dependency on lsb-release in
nvidia-kernel-dkms, not in dkms.  And I don't understand why a
Pre-Depends would be necessary anywhere.  Care to explain?

Cheers,
Julien
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