On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, William Ballard wrote: > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > into his shell and refuses to discuss this problem. > > Since his package (and theoretically any package which generates > packages) may be uninstallable because there is no way to say "give me > the source and everything I need to be able to use the output" via > Recommends, or a foo-source-end-user metapackage which depends on > foo-source and foo-utils, we are left in the situation of not being able > to trust that -source packages won't hork our system. > > (If the package is a network card driver source package our system may > then be unfixable because now our network card is hosed). > > Given that -source packages do not adequately specify the dependencies > to be able to use the output, one must NEVER run "dpkg -i" a given deb > without first running "dpkg --dry-run -i" on the same debs and verifying > that it returns a zero exit code. > > I don't know why this isn't the default behavior of dpkg -i, checking > that at least all dependencies will be met before uninstalling old > packages and leaving the system broken.
Er, huh? I don't see what problem you are describing. What *exactly* is the issue you have?
