Bug#354000: madwifi-source: Should only recommend module-assistant

Kel Modderman kelrin at tpg.com.au
Wed Feb 22 21:04:41 UTC 2006


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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Julien
>>
>>  
>>
>
> 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.




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