Debian Bug report logs - #703842
dkms: consider adding dependency on lsb-release

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Miller <mtmiller@ieee.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dkms: consider adding dependency on lsb-release

Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:14:00 -0400

Package: dkms
Version: 2.2.0.3-1.2
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

Please consider adding a dependency on lsb-release for dkms, either Depends or
Recommends.

DKMS uses the lsb_release command to determine what distribution is running.
Based on that it chooses different installation paths for installed kernel
drivers.

If the lsb-release package is installed, drivers are installed to
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates/dkms

If the lsb-release package is not installed, drivers are installed to whatever
path the specific driver specifies in its dkms.conf.

Either way the system works, but is not consistent from one installation to the
next if lsb-release is added or removed. Nothing is broken, I'm just hoping to
fix this inconsistency.

Another alternative would be to patch dkms to have a distro_version_deb
function analogous to the existing distro_version_rpm function.

Thanks,

--
mike



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 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    11.5
ii  coreutils          8.13-3.5
ii  dpkg-dev           1.16.9
ii  gcc                4:4.7.2-1
ii  make               3.81-8.2
ii  module-init-tools  9-2
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]  3.2.39-2
ii  linux-headers-amd64 [linux-headers]          3.2+46
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-image]      3.2.39-2
ii  menu                                         2.1.46
ii  sudo                                         1.8.5p2-1+nmu1

dkms suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #12 received at 703842@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>

To: 703842@bugs.debian.org,control@bugs.debian.org,703842-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [ec031cc] Fix for Bug#703842 committed to git

Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 05:51:50 +0000

tags 703842 + pending
thanks

Hello,

     The following change has been committed for this bug by
 Aron Xu <aron@debian.org> on Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:51:27 +0800.
 The fix will be in the next upload. 
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Add lsb-release to Recommends (Closes: #703842)


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You can check the diff of the fix at:

    ;a=commitdiff;h=ec031cc

Message #22 received at 703842-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>

To: 703842-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fixed in version dkms/2.3-2

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 21:21:53 +0800

Source-Version: 2.3-2

This bug should be addressed in the upload of 2.3-2, but the changelog
wasn't updated properly to have this bug closed automatically.

Regards,
Aron

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