Package: kernel-package
Version: 13.011
Severity: serious
Hi,
kernel-img built with the current kernel-package fails to install on an
older system (wheezy) due to dependency on kernel-common package which
is not available there.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
linux-image-3.14.0-test2-00009-g0caed0719426:
linux-image-3.14.0-test2-00009-g0caed0719426 depends on kernel-common; however:
Package kernel-common is not installed.
The package changelog claims that:
* Created a new kernel-common package to host kernel-img.conf
manpages. Create a default kernel-img.conf similar to the one
generated by the base installer, and register with ucf. Updated the
man pages and the examples. Made the generated kernel image packages
recommend the kernel-common package. (Closes: #626216).
AFAIU kernel-common should be recommended by kernel-img package but the
above error message suggests that the dependency is hard
Should this be changed to:
Index: kernel-package-13.011/kernel/Control
===================================================================
--- kernel-package-13.011.orig/kernel/Control
+++ kernel-package-13.011/kernel/Control
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ Section: kernel
Priority: optional
Provides: =ST-image, =ST-image-=CV, =ST-modules-=CV
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.17) | debconf-2.0
-Depends: =I coreutils (>= 5.96), =R kernel-common
+Depends: =I coreutils (>= 5.96)
+Recommends: =R kernel-common
Suggests: fdutils, =ST-doc-=V=SA | =ST-source-=V, =ST-image-=V=SA-dbg,
=ST-manual-=V
Description: Linux kernel binary image for version =V=SA
This package contains the Linux kernel image for version
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.15.0-rc6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
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 kernel-package depends on:
ii bc 1.06.95-8
ii binutils 2.24.51.20140425-1
ii build-essential 11.6
ii bzip2 1.0.6-5
ii file 1:5.18-1
ii gettext 0.18.3.2-1
ii kmod 17-2
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2
ii xmlto 0.0.25-2
ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-2
ii docbook-utils 0.6.14-3
ii kernel-common 13.011
ii uboot-mkimage 2012.04.01-2
Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
ii libncurses5-dev [libncurses-dev] 5.9+20140118-1
pn linux-source <none>
-- no debconf information
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Michal Hocko
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