Roland, No worries :). It _is_ confusing. I'd like users to have the option of using a Debian kernel image or their own kernel, so I've intentionally made the "Depends:" pretty loose, relying on "Recommends:" instead.
Not being a user of aptitude, I hadn't seen the behavior you described. Was this just a fluke, or something I can adjust in the package to improve it? On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 10:54 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Package: oprofile > Severity: important > > oprofile depends on oprofile-modules0.8, but oprofile-modules0.8 packages > only exist > for 2.4 kernels (2.6 debian kernel-image packages already contain > oprofile.ko, and > it's quite easy for users to build oprofile into 2.6 packages with > make-kpkg). > Perhaps the dependency should be lowered to a recommends? > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 3.1 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > > Versions of packages oprofile depends on: > ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and > bina > ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management > sy > ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > an > ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library > ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline > parameters > ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-7 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime > v > ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 > ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) > configu > -- Ciao, al ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Al Stone Alter Ego: Linux & Open Source Lab Debian Developer Hewlett-Packard Company http://www.debian.org E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
