Re: Bug#287949 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#287949: ndiswrapper-modules depends on ndiswrapper-utils; so should ndiswrapper-source)

2004-12-31 Thread William Ballard
A lot of bugs are going to be filed on ndiswrapper-source. Maintainer has made it easier to build-but-not-install the module at the expense of breaking upgrades and causing headaches for people who *will* install it, and either he's failing to see this problem. It's a wierd problem because the *pa

Re: Bug#287949: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#287949: ndiswrapper-modules depends on ndiswrapper-utils; so should ndiswrapper-source)

2004-12-31 Thread William Ballard
How about a Recommends? On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 11:43:45AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > A dependency wouldn't change that. A *versioned* dependency would, > but it would be a little rediculous to add that when there's no need > (afaik) for it. You should at least add a Recommends, that way apt

Re: Bug#287949: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#287949: ndiswrapper-modules depends on ndiswrapper-utils; so should ndiswrapper-source)

2004-12-31 Thread William Ballard
This text should be in the bug report log. Package maintainer is closing bugs too fast and hiding information from the public without any discussion or peer review. On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:27:12PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > How about a Recommends? > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 11:43:45AM -

Re: Bug#287949: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#287949: ndiswrapper-modules depends on ndiswrapper-utils; so should ndiswrapper-source)

2004-12-31 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 14:04 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > This text should be in the bug report log. > > Package maintainer is closing bugs too fast and hiding information > from the public without any discussion or peer review. > Accusing me of such things, instead of attempting to work w/ me

Re: Bug#287949: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#287949: ndiswrapper-modules depends on ndiswrapper-utils; so should ndiswrapper-source)

2004-12-31 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:40:42PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > Figure out what you what, and file a proper bug. Don't give me > hand-waving about things possibly breaking, and recommending I make > changes that force things upon people. If you feel -source packages > should have recommends/dep