Hi, Sven Luther writes:
> how would mkvmlinuz act if there were no vmlinux installed, but only > a vmlinuz ? It exits with a non-zero exit status. > > Since the postinst comes from kernel-package, you need to sort this > > out with Manoj. > > Well, that would be a possibility. The other possibility would be to > depend on mkvmlinuz, [...] Is installing mkvmlinuz such a problem, > especially if you have a subarch aware debconfified postinst ? On many systems, it is perfectly reasonable to not install mkvmlinuz. Therefore, "Depends" is definitely too strong. IMHO "Suggests" is just about right. > > If I had filed a grave bug every time I hosed one of my systems > > because I didn't know something, we'd be approaching #300000 now. > > But debian would be a more stable and usable system by now too. Maybe. Or maybe more bugs would be closed immediately with nothing but an RTFM. Who knows. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
