Bug#447818: hal: Should suggest libsmbios-bin instead of recommending

2007-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Michael, On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: > Its hard to estimate such numbers. But given, that today more than 50% > of PCs are laptops, and with dell having a market share around 20%, this > would make 10% of users with a dell laptop. That still leaves 90% of systems where t

Bug#447818: hal: Should suggest libsmbios-bin instead of recommending

2007-10-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Frans Pop schrieb: > > IMHO this is too weak a justification for a recommends, which means that > libsmbios-bin will be installed by default on each and every desktop system > when in fact it is only actually needed by a very, very small subclass > of systems. Its hard to estimate such numbers. B

Bug#447818: hal: Should suggest libsmbios-bin instead of recommending

2007-10-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Frans Pop schrieb: > Package: hal > Version: 0.5.10-1 > Severity: normal > > In the changelog I noticed: > - Add a Recommends: libsmbios-bin [i386 amd64]. The libsmbios-bin >package ships the dellWirelessCtl utility which is required >for the RF kill switch support on DELL laptops. > > I

Bug#447818: hal: Should suggest libsmbios-bin instead of recommending

2007-10-23 Thread Frans Pop
Package: hal Version: 0.5.10-1 Severity: normal In the changelog I noticed: - Add a Recommends: libsmbios-bin [i386 amd64]. The libsmbios-bin package ships the dellWirelessCtl utility which is required for the RF kill switch support on DELL laptops. IMHO this is too weak a justification fo