Bug#392239: tpctl: useless without thinkpad (source) package

[Thomas Viehmann]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:02:41PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
>> the thinkpad source package has a grave bug: It cannot be compiled
>> against the etch Linux kernel (that is 2.6.18). As such, thinkpad is
>> useless and thus so is tpctl.

> How does this follow if tpctl only Recommends: thinkpad4-modules rather than
> depending on it?  Either this bug's severity is overinflated, or tpctl
> appears to be missing a dependency.

Well, cursory inspection, e.g.
 for a in $(tpctl | sed 's/ *\[//;s/|.*//') ; do tpctl $a ; done
resulting in gazillions of complaints about /dev/thinkpad, seems to
suggest the latter.
I could be wrong.

Kind regards

T.
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