On 01/12/10 12:36, John Vivirito wrote: > hi I was doing some installs and i found that some source > packages have recommends that we do not supply in archives and > some that have no installation candidate. One example is > firmware-linux and i cant find the source package that > recommended it. Also if we provide recommend packages that are > not in archives we are telling users " we do not have this > package but feel free to get it from somewhere else" > AFAIK we do not support packages found outside of our archives. > > Now if this is left overs from Debian's packages i think we > should either package the recommends or remove them from > source. The one way i know how to find out source packages is > to look while packaging/updating the packages, or maybe have a > patch that searches and removes them. > If someone knows a better way or a way to make a patch or add > it in the rules file. I would go with a patch only because > during merges we can keep them intact and not have to redo it > for every merge. > I do not have time for Lucid to look into this much further so > if someone has any ideas or can draft up a patch please let me > know. > Sorry i had typo in address first time but here is the full post.
also i reported a bug on this it is bug #506528 here is the link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/506528 -- Sincerely Yours, John Vivirito https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito Linux User# 414246 "How can i get lost, if i have no where to go" -- Metallica from Unforgiven III
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