open-vm-source should recommend installation of packages needed for modules compilation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: open-vm-source
module-assistant cannot compile open-vm-source unless all the required development packages needed for compilation are installed.
The full list of needed packages is reported in:
https:/
I think all these needed packages should be recommended by open-vm-source (in fact, the installation of open-vm-source without those packages is nearly useless).
Since open-vm-source already depends on bzip2, debhelper, and dpatch, here is the list of packages which should be added in open-vm-source as "recommended":
* autotools-dev
* libdumbnet-dev
* libgtk2.0-dev
* libicu-dev
* libpam0g-dev
* libproc-dev
* liburiparser-dev
* libx11-dev
* libxinerama-dev
* libxss-dev
* libxtst-dev
Why are all of those packages required for compilation? Isn't open-vm-source the source package for the kernel modules only? None of the -dev packages you've mentioned are needed for compiling the open-vm-tools kernel modules.