[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#689374: dkms: Please drop Recommends for package linux-image

Mon Oct 1 23:21:04 UTC 2012

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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Package: dkms
Version: 2.2.0.3-1.1

the package 'dkms' currently recommends the virtual package 'linux-image'.
In the default configuration, 'apt' always installs recommended packages:

glaubitz at z6:~> apt-config dump | grep -i recommend
APT::Install-Recommends "true";

While this is usually not a problem, it is problematic when recommending
the virtual kernel package 'linux-image'. During installation, it
might not be clear which kernel package will eventually provide the virtual
package 'linux-image' and 'apt' will randomly choose any package. This
may result in 'apt' installing an undesired kernel package.

The problem can be observed when installing a machine with the automatic
installation system FAI (source package 'fai'): because of the 'Recommends',
installing 'dkms' will in some cases install the RT kernel package
('linux-image-rt-...') which users usually don't want.

As for the package 'dkms', a 'Recommends' on 'linux-image' is not
required as the kernel image itself is not necessary to build the
kernel modules as opposed to the kernel header packages.

Please remove the 'Recommends' on 'linux-image'.

Cheers,

Adrian
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential    11.5
ii  coreutils          8.13-3.2
ii  dpkg-dev           1.16.8
ii  gcc                4:4.7.1-1
ii  make               3.81-8.2
ii  module-init-tools  9-2
ii  patch              2.6.1-3

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot                                        1.18.4-2
ii  linux-headers-3.2.0-2-amd64 [linux-headers]     3.2.20-1
ii  linux-headers-3.2.0-2-rt-amd64 [linux-headers]  3.2.20-1
ii  linux-headers-3.2.0-3-amd64 [linux-headers]     3.2.23-1
ii  linux-headers-amd64 [linux-headers]             3.2+45
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 [linux-image]        2.6.32-35
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 [linux-image]         3.2.20-1
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64 [linux-image]         3.2.23-1
ii  linux-image-3.5-trunk-amd64 [linux-image]       3.5-1~experimental.1
ii  menu                                            2.1.46
ii  sudo                                            1.8.5p2-1

dkms suggests no packages.

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