[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#475542: Bug#475542: virtualbox-ose-source should not

[Michael Meskes]

severity 475542 normal
thanks

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:47:23PM +0200, debian at ginguppin.de wrote:
> depend on prebuild kernel packages

Well, it doesn't.

> Justification: fails to build from source

If you use this justification how about giving us at least a hint on how
it fails to build?

> it is a major nuisance that a lot of those source packages depend on

They do not.

> prebuild debian kernel packages (i for one know nobody who ever uses
> them other than for installation).

I do. So at least you know one now.

> that dependency does not have any justification in code nor in usability
> -- it seems to be there only to annoy.

A statement like this makes me wonder if you're really here to report a
bug. There certainly is a justification.

> at least it should be possible to inform the user before actually
> building that those packages are not installed and even better ask him,

Why? You don't need them to build. So you might even build for a
different system.

Michael
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