linux-headers-* packages should Provides: linux-headers

[Tixy (Jon Medhurst)]

The dkms package Recommends:

linux-headers-generic-pae | linux-headers-686-pae | linux-headers-amd64 | linux-headers-generic | linux-headers

none of which are provided by current Linaro linux-headers-* packages. Therefore installing dkms ends up unnecessarily pulling in some random headers package (OMAP headers for Linux 3.2 from the Ubuntu repository). Download and unpacking these large packages takes several minutes on boards with slow storage, and it is also confusing for the user to see 3.2 OMAP headers being installed on a 3.4 non-OMAP kernel.

This problem could likely be solved by adding 'linux-headers' to the Provides: line in the control file for Linaro linux-headers-* packages.

[Tixy (Jon Medhurst) (tixy)]

I checked all of the hwpacks in the 12.04 release and this affects all of them.

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

Is this still the case for the 12.05 release?

[Tixy (Jon Medhurst) (tixy)]

This bug is still present in the 12.05 release.

[Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)]

dkms no longer recommends a kernel headers package, as most of the time it would pull the wrong set of packages. Marking bug as wont-fix for now.

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

Tixy: I marked it as "won't fix" as per Ricardo's comments. We can discuss it when you are back.

[Tixy (Jon Medhurst) (tixy)]

Now no longer valid because comment #4 means the problem we were trying to solve no longer exists.