Frederik Schueler wrote: > Hi Luk, Philipp, > > IMHO this is not a bug at all.
The bug is about a package in main depending (or recommending) on a package outside main. > The userland tools do not work at all without the kernel module, thus > the dependency is mandatory. > changing the Depends: to a Recommends: would introduce a real bug. And would actually only change the severity of this bug. > Look at the nvidia-glx package, it handles this the same way. A non-free or contrib package can depend or recommend on packages outside main without much problems... > Maybe we should just add > > Please see the iscsitarget-source package for building the kernel module > required by this package. This will provide iscsitarget-module. > > > o the package description and close the bug with this. The bug will still be there... There are two obvious solutions to this bug: move the package to contrib or autobuilt iscistarget-module. Cheers Luk > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 04:24:50PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> Your package is not installable as it depends on iscsitarget-module, which is >> not available in unstable. > > Best regards > Frederik Schüler >
