On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 08:51 +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 10:25:03PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 09:17 +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 03:59:31AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > I suggest that you replace this dependency with a recommendation of > > > > linux-headers-686-pae | linux-headers-amd64 | linux-headers-generic > > > ---end quoted text--- > > > > > > So I will replace the current linux-headers* deps with the one > > > suggested above, but I don't understand why demote it to a > > > recommendation instead of a dependency ? > > > > Because not everyone is using one of those kernel flavours. > ---end quoted text--- > > But the -dkms package will not be buildable if there isn't a kernel > headers package installed, ie. it will not be usable.
That package might have a different name, or the kernel headers might
not even be part of a package. Recommends is therefore the correct
relationship.
Ben.
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