[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#707008: dkms: should depend on python-apport

[Matthias Liertzer]

Package: dkms
Version: 2.2.0.3-1.2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

while updating the system to the newest version of linux-headers in unstable
(linux-headers-3.8-1-amd64), dkms failed to run the package hooks for dkms. The
script in /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/dkms_packages.py failed because it
imports the python module apport, which is, however, not installed on the
machine. Installing python-apport and applying the following patch

--- dkms_packages.py    2013-05-06 20:02:05.102478775 +0000
+++ /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/dkms_packages.py    2013-05-06
20:00:26.940936271 +0000
@@ -92,4 +92,4 @@

 if options.kernel:
     report['DKMSKernelVersion'] = options.kernel
-report.write(open(apport.fileutils.make_report_path(report), 'w'))
+report.write(open(apport.fileutils.make_report_path(report), 'wb'))

fixes the problem.

Best,
Matthias

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

Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential    11.6
ii  coreutils          8.20-3
ii  dpkg-dev           1.16.10
ii  gcc                4:4.7.2-1
ii  make               3.81-8.2
ii  module-init-tools  9-3
ii  patch              2.6.1-3

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot                                     1.18.4-2
ii  linux-headers-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-headers]  3.2.41-2
ii  linux-headers-3.8-1-amd64 [linux-headers]    3.8.11-1
ii  linux-headers-amd64 [linux-headers]          3.8+47
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-image]      3.2.41-2
ii  linux-image-3.8-1-amd64 [linux-image]        3.8.11-1
ii  menu                                         2.1.46
ii  sudo                                         1.8.5p2-1+nmu1

dkms suggests no packages.

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