Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:36:10PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: >>I disagree that the driver would Depends: on the firmware. > > Well, maybe we're coming closer to the root of our disagreement. I > thought it was self-evident that, if a driver is packaged (on its own[1]), > and firmware for that device was packaged (on its own), and the hardware > must be sent the firmware by the driver to do anything, that the driver > package would Depends: on the firmware. [...] > [1] compilations of drivers, such as the Linux kernel, may or may not > be different; let's ignore that for sanity of discussion for the moment
Actually, I think that case would be handled correctly by the dependency-based test for main as well: by Debian's current practice, if only one piece of a larger package requires another package to run, the larger package expresses only a Suggests relationship on the other package. Therefore, by the dependency-based test, the larger package can go to main. - Josh Triplett
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