On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:32:15 +0200, Peter Marschall wrote: > > > If yes, would it b possible to add the dependency on Data::Random only > > > for these kernels? > > No, the package can't in advance know which kernel a machine runs. > My idea was then to update the Depends:/Recommends: line with something like > libdata-random-perl [!linux-any]
Hm, right, that could work, sorry for missing the possibility in my first reply. > > And, BTW, it's not a Depends, but only a Recommends, so you can > > safely remove it. > Oops, Thanks for the hint. > This really voids the biggest reason for the bug report. > (sorry I completely overlooked it and took it for a Dpends:) No problem. > > (And I'm open to removing it from Recommends if we are sure enough > > that there are no machines without /dev/random out there ...). > Your decision: close the report or distinguish by kernel type ;-) Let's sleep over it and decide tomorrow :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key ID: 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Kurti Ostbahn
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