On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > 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?
I've now taken time to read the bug report. You're wrong, and the maintainer is right.
