Kel Modderman wrote: > Hi Julian, > > On Sunday 16 March 2008 23:37:57 Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> Kel Modderman wrote: >>> tags 470774 moreinfo >>> thanks >>> >>> Hi Julian, >>> >>> On Friday 14 March 2008 01:37:08 Julian Andres Klode wrote: >>>> Package: ndiswrapper >>>> Version: 1.52-1 >>>> Severity: normal >>>> > > What warning do they need? It is true an orphan package may result due to the > upgrade path, but do you really think its worth throwing away the protection > the ndiswrapper-common wrappers give to clean up that orphan? Or do you > think the wrappers serve no purpose? There's no need to change the packaging style, it was only a suggestion. In some cases, wrapper scripts may be useful, but they need to be improved:
Looking at the code of the wrapper, it always uses the latest version of the
utils it can find.
Example:
* Kernel A, module compatible to utils 1.9
* Kernel B, module compatible to utils 2.0
* You boot Kernel A, ndiswrapper would use ndiswrapper-2.0
=> It won't work, because only 1.9 is supported
Therefore, you need to get the supported version from the module, using
something like
modinfo -p ndiswrapper | sed -n 's/^utils_version:.*(read only:
\([0-9\.]*\)).*/\1/p'
As Ubuntu simply removed the -1.1 package, we should maybe just do the same.
> >
> Thanks, Kel.
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