On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:41:58AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > 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.
Jens, sorry, but this is bulshit. Please tell me what you gain by not having a depends there ? what size is mkvmlinuz, and what is the benefit in _NOT_ installing it ? And try to balance that against the benefit of having the kernel work out of the box on not yaboot using subarches ? And remember that _I_ will have to do the support of all those pegasos users wich would then tell me "huh, i installed the kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc, and am now unable to boot the system". If you are really going to insist in doing it this way, i would insist that we create at least a package containing a special non-modular pegasos friendly config, in chrp friendly format. > > > 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. Well, maybe, but having a kernel installed which doesn't work is well beyond the a simple RTFM, it _IS_ a RC level bug. Friendly, Sven Luther
