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

[Julien Valroff]

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.

Regarding the documentation, maybe it would be good to insist on the
kernel-package method too.

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?

Cheers,
Julien