Bug#290917: oprofile is uninstallable with 2.6 kernel

2005-01-17 Thread Roland Dreier
Al> Not being a user of aptitude, I hadn't seen the behavior you Al> described. Was this just a fluke, or something I can adjust Al> in the package to improve it? Good question, I'm not really an aptitude expert either. Maybe the recommends: could become suggests: but that's possibly

Bug#290917: oprofile is uninstallable with 2.6 kernel

2005-01-17 Thread Al Stone
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

Bug#290917: oprofile is uninstallable with 2.6 kernel

2005-01-17 Thread Roland Dreier
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